OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38051

surety

/ˈʃɔːɹɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fianza
A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
fiador
One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Trump’s lawyers said two days ago that to post a bond covering the full amount of the $454m civil fraud judgment against him while he appeals was “a practical impossibility” after…
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