Suretor

noun

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

    "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."

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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."

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