suretor

plural suretors

1. lawSynonym of surety (“one who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein”).

   If the court will not allow a bond signed by the defendant, suggest relatives as suretors.

   1995, Stephen Hrones, Catherine C. Czar, Criminal Practice Handbook, The Michie Company, →ISBN, page 25

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   Judgments obtained in the Provincial Courts, like judgments of the other Courts of the Province, were subject to a stay of execution for six months, provided the debtor furnished two sufficient suretors, who confessed judgment for the debt and costs.

   1913, James Walter Thomas, Chronicles of Colonial Maryland: With Illustrations, The Eddy Press Corporation, page 142

   The plaintiff suing on his own behalf is ordered to provide a suretor who should remain until the end of the trial, as in C 23 q.5 c. 19.

   2016, Bruce C. Brasington, “The Ordo Bambergensis”, in Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, section “Concerning Sureties (Cap. x)”, page 228

   Synonyms: surety