Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of surety.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sureties.

Examples

  • The argument, that the husband may be bound by sureties, is useless: suppose what Mr Norton affirmed were true, and that the woman could not get a surety?

    English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century 1854

  • And these authors conditional are generally called sureties, in Latin, fidejussores and sponsores; and particularly for debt, praedes and for appearance before a judge or magistrate, vades.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And these authors conditional are generally called sureties, in Latin, fidejussores and sponsores; and particularly for debt, praedes and for appearance before a judge or magistrate, vades.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • They are {114} called 'sureties' because they give security to the Church that the child shall be virtuously brought up;

    The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness 1903

  • In the second instance, it was secured through the influence of certain "sureties"; and in the third, "at the intercession of the bishops of Ireland with the coarb of Patrick, Mael Maedoc Ua Morgair"

    St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899

  • The directive is expected to include further measures, such as sureties against damage.

    Gates of Vienna 2009

  • "bricks and mortar" of a country estate in Suffolk, England and demanding that more people, known as "sureties" under the British legal system, be held liable for his whereabouts

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2010

  • Perhaps it was too much temperament that made them turn from the commonplace and humdrum to find relief in the lying and fantastic sureties of John

    Chapter 21 2010

  • First additional sessions judge K Sampath granted the transgenders and doctor Nagannan of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh, and asked them to execute a personal bond for Rs 10,000 and furnish two sureties each for a like sum.

    Doctor implicated in enforced surgery in India granted bail 2009

  • The conditions include a bar on visiting the telecom department without the court's prior permission and posting two sureties of 300,000 rupees $5,780 each.

    India Court Grants Bail to Chandolia R. Jai Krishna 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.