单词 | to find surety |
释义 | > as lemmasto find (also give) surety (also sureties) (b) to find (also give) surety (also sureties): to put up money, etc., as surety; to give a guarantee that certain duties will be fulfilled. [Compare Middle French faire seureté (1363 in this sense), also Old French doner seurté (12th cent. in more general sense ‘to make assurances’).] ΚΠ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Ellesmere) (1871) l. 243 He shal han Custance in mariage And certein gold..And heer to founden sufficient suretee. 1530–1 Acts 22 Henry VIII (?1531) f. xiv He shall be kepte in the stockes tyll he hathe founde suerty to go to seruyce, or els to labour. 1579 J. Frampton tr. B. de Escalante Disc. Nauigation x. sig. Oiv The naturall people of the Countrey will go from one Prouince to another, they giue sureties to returne within a certaine time which is appointed them. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 4 Nov. (1855) 80 To..find sufficient suretie that the samen shall be furth-cumand to the publict. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. viii. 282 He agreed to pay the sum; and immediately gave sureties for it. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 469 He..prevailed upon the jailer by large bribes, and by giving sureties for his return, to permit him to visit his wife. 1868 J. Lambert Vagrancy Laws & Vagrants 6 Every labourer and beggar, who was found offending, was to be put in the stocks and detained there until he found surety to return to service. 1912 Yale Law Jrnl. 21 328 A witness, summoned to testify in the police court, was ordered to give surety for his appearance before the Superior Court. 2005 F. Lambert James Habersham ii. 44 After giving sureties for their appearances, the zealous Methodists left the chambers. < as lemmas |
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