Betydelse av surety på svenska

• 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:

  • Her brothers are acting as sureties for her.

  • No one has yet been found who is willing to stand (= act as a) surety for Mr Naylor.

  • What are you able to provide as a surety that you will repay the loan?

• 1 a person who accepts legal responsibility for another person's debt or behaviour:

  • act as surety for sb/sth He acted as surety for the two companies when they took out the original loan.

• 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:

  • Analysts doubt whether Ford would have been able to raise such a large amount of debt without some kind of surety.

  • A local shopkeeper and a relative had been prepared to put up a surety of $20,000, the court heard.