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SURETY

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SURETY , in See also:

law, the party liable under a See also:

contract of See also:

GUARANTEE (sometimes spelt " guarantie " or " guaranty "; an O. Fr. form of " warrant," from the Teutonic word which appears in German as wahren, to defend or make safe and binding)

guarantee (q.v.) . In criminal practice sureties See also:

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound by See also:

RECOGNIZANCE (from Lat. recognoscere, to acknowledge)

recognizance (q.v.) are a means of obtaining compliance with the See also:

order of a See also:

court of See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, whether 'to keep the See also:

peace or otherwise .

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