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surety
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tags: [law]
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Definition:1. a bail bond2. a security against loss or damage3. a signal or sign of certainty
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That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet.
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Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky’s presence.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina.
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“If I had my quarry back, I could use it as a surety, and borrow money to raise an army.”
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth (1990)
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“Sometimes the Duke sent the ring with a messenger as surety that an order came directly from him,”
Frank Herbert. Dune (1965)
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