suretyship

[ shoor-i-tee-ship, shoor-tee-, shur-i-tee-, shur-tee- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Law.

First recorded in 1525–35; surety + -ship

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

And when I was wived, having something to stick to, I had the horn of suretyship ever before my eyes.

As for the men his friends, his enemies, the Divine suretyship for Job will recoil upon them and their cruel taunts.

He also introduced, during the sessions of 1842 and 1843, bills to abolish suretyship in Georgia.

He that is surety for a stranger, shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

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