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What is a suretyship?

What is a suretyship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) An accessory agreement through which a person binds themselves for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for their debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
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And when I was wived, having something to stick to, I had the horn of suretyship ever before my eyes.
This concept of security raises a harmonization issue with the Quebec civil law concept of suretyship.
This clause of the statute is discussed more at length in the chapter on suretyship.
Attempts to perform such acts of suretyship are beyond their power, and are ultra vires.
But even then there was for her no suretyship of motherhood, or training, or control.
In the first case, the title of the contract referred to as suretyship, but the contract itself was riddled with contradictions.

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