Definition of Suretyship

1. n. The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.

Definition of Suretyship

1. Noun. (legal) An accessory agreement through which a person binds themselves for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for their debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another. ¹

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Definition of Suretyship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suretyship

surefootedly
surefootedness
surely
sureness
surenesses
surer
sures
surest
suretied
sureties
suretiship
suretiships
surety
surety bond
suretying
suretyship (current term)
suretyships
surf
surf-rider
surf and turf
surf boat
surf boats
surf casting
surf fish
surf fishing
surf kayaking
surf lifesaving
surf rider
surf riders
surf riding

Literary usage of Suretyship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Business Law: With Legal Forms by John James Sullivan (1920)
"A contract of suretyship is defined as an agreement whereby one person engages to be ... suretyship is the broader term. Every guaranty is a contract of ..."

2. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Sir Frederick Pollock (1885)
"The contract of suretyship " is one in which there is no universal obligation to make disclosure " (.r). The creditor is not bound to volunteer information ..."

3. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Frederick Pollock, Franklin Strawn Dickson (1888)
"•jf C. suretyship. It is' laid down that a surety is released from his obligation by ... The contract of suretyship " is one in which there is no universal ..."

4. Latin-American Commercial Law by Toribio Esquivel Obregón, Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1921)
"suretyship suretyship is a contract by which one person binds himself to pay or to comply with some obligation on behalf of a third party in case the latter ..."

5. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"Some of the old contracts, like suretyship, hiring, and the bargain and sale, fitted into the new system of ideas much more readily than into the old. ..."

6. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"suretyship and partnership. suretyship and partnership are sometimes described as contracts which need a full disclosure of all facts likely to affect the ..."

7. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"Contract of suretyship—At common law and under statutes conferring capacity. At common law a contract of suretyship by a married woman was void, ..."

8. Philosophy of Law by Josef Kohler, Adalbert Albrecht (1914)
"Not until later did suretyship change its character so that it implied an addition ... suretyship does not, of course, aim at subjecting the surety to the ..."

9. American Business Law: With Legal Forms by John James Sullivan (1920)
"A contract of suretyship is defined as an agreement whereby one person engages to be ... suretyship is the broader term. Every guaranty is a contract of ..."

10. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Sir Frederick Pollock (1885)
"The contract of suretyship " is one in which there is no universal obligation to make disclosure " (.r). The creditor is not bound to volunteer information ..."

11. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Frederick Pollock, Franklin Strawn Dickson (1888)
"•jf C. suretyship. It is' laid down that a surety is released from his obligation by ... The contract of suretyship " is one in which there is no universal ..."

12. Latin-American Commercial Law by Toribio Esquivel Obregón, Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1921)
"suretyship suretyship is a contract by which one person binds himself to pay or to comply with some obligation on behalf of a third party in case the latter ..."

13. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"Some of the old contracts, like suretyship, hiring, and the bargain and sale, fitted into the new system of ideas much more readily than into the old. ..."

14. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"suretyship and partnership. suretyship and partnership are sometimes described as contracts which need a full disclosure of all facts likely to affect the ..."

15. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"Contract of suretyship—At common law and under statutes conferring capacity. At common law a contract of suretyship by a married woman was void, ..."

16. Philosophy of Law by Josef Kohler, Adalbert Albrecht (1914)
"Not until later did suretyship change its character so that it implied an addition ... suretyship does not, of course, aim at subjecting the surety to the ..."

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