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: --
Land was given in another 9.5 per cent of llegi'tima payments, as opposed to 6.1 per cent of dowries (excluding those cases where land was given simply as a surety).
Mancherji simply stood as a witness and surety to the contract.
A constant watch was kept to prevent servants staying a full year, while tenants taking on apprentices were immediately asked to stand surety for any future liability to the parish.
Another four women acted as sureties for debtors.
Aspiring senators would lend money to clients, or act as surety for others to lend them cash.
Where the frankpledge system existed, all free and servile men were pledged to one another in small groups, usually of ten men, providing mutual surety.
Another bill, passed even earlier, relaxed the 1855 law requiring that sureties on official bonds be bona fide residents of the officeholder's jurisdiction.
Further, there are no grounds to exclude the possibility that jurors charged for their services as surety.
