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Noun
suretor (plural suretors)
- (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.