Countersecurity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A commitment to guarantee the security (property or bonding in securing a loan) of someone who has become security for another. countable, uncountable

    "This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans' Court of Frederick County requiring the appellant, the surviving executor of John Sifford, deceased, to give countersecurity."

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"This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans' Court of Frederick County requiring the appellant, the surviving executor of John Sifford, deceased, to give countersecurity."

Etymology

From counter- + security.

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