Word Finder - sureties

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Certainty.

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That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.

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A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.

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One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.

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A substitute; a hostage.

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Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

The tahsildars check the accounts of the kabz-i-mals, and, if they discover peculation, send them at once to be dealt with by the chief official authorities of the Gaza (department); all the electors of a mukhtar are, ipso facto, joint sureties for him.

When this is done, the revenues to be farmed are put up to public auction and sold to the highest bidder, provided he can prove himself amply solvent and produce sufficient sureties.

It also aroused a general feeling in the North, and when finally he was admitted to bail (in May 1867), Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith, and others in that section who had been his political opponents, became his sureties.

He surrendered, and his defence appears to have been injudiciously conducted; at any rate he was fined 200 marks, and condemned to be pilloried three times, to be imprisoned indefinitely, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during seven years.

He was dragged from the sanctuary at Bury St Edmunds, in which he had taken refuge, and was kept in strait confinement until Richard of Cornwall, the king's brother, and three other earls offered to be his sureties.

In cases of special importance the pledges were human beings, "hostage sureties."

Coverdale was called before the privy council on the 1st of September, and required to find sureties; but he was not further molested, and when Christian III.

The Sureties claimed a maritime lien for necessaries against Commodore's vessels based on the bond.

The bishop of Glasgow, James the steward, and Sir Alexander Lindesay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his daughter Marjorie as a hostage.

The Domesday survey of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk, &c., shows remarkable deviations in local organization and justice (lagmen, sokes), and great peculiarities as to status (socmen, freemen), while from laws and a few charters we can perceive some influence on criminal law (nidingsvaerk), special usages as to fines (lahslit), the keeping of peace, attestation and sureties of acts (faestermen), &c. But, on the whole, the introduction of Danish and Norse elements,apart from local cases, was more important owing to the conflicts and compromises it called forth and its social results, than on account of any distinct trail of Scandinavian views in English law.

A contract made by an urban council, whereof the value and amount exceed X50, must be under seal, and certain other formalities must be observed, some of which are imperative; for example, the taking of sureties from the contractor, and the making provision for penalties to be paid by him in case the terms of the contract are not observed.

Henry Prentice for refusing to give sureties to keep the peace to all especially to his wife Hannah of Melford.

It is preferable to have two sureties per person.

They will be lett by auction to the best bidder on producing sufficient sureties for payment of monies.

That Thomas Duffield Esq and George Long be accepted as Sureties in the sum of one hundred pounds for George Long as Relieving Officer.