0 a person who accepts legal responsibility for another person's debt or behaviour, or money given as a promise that someone will do something that they have promised to do, such as pay a debt or appear in court:
1 a person who accepts legal responsibility for another person's debt or behaviour:
2 a promise, or money or property given as a promise, that someone will do something that they have said they will do, such as pay a debt or appear in court:
The composition books dating 1618-41 show stationers standing as surety for well over 300 clerical appointments.
There was a certain lack of surety from the performers, as well as a thin orchestration, so these weren't entirely successful.
Security for a loan was guaranteed by another individual standing surety.
The country turned a corner or, more precisely, it at last returned to the sureties of the two-party politics it had known before 1910.
Beginning in 1623 he appears repeatedly in the exchequer accounts as a surety to guarantee payment of first fruits by new ecclesiastical incumbents.
Each of these sources of surety is an illusion.
Those failing to provide surety could be transported to the colonies.
Further, there are no grounds to exclude the possibility that jurors charged for their services as surety.
