suretor

English

Noun

suretor (plural suretors)

1. (law) Synonym of surety (“one who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein”).
   • 1913, James Walter Thomas, Chronicles of Colonial Maryland: With Illustrations, The Eddy Press Corporation, page 142:

     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.

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

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

   • 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:

     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.