suretyship
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
surety · guarantor · guaranty · standing surety
in the texts
Against Apaturius
The legal concept of standing surety or guarantor for another's debt, which is both the mechanism of the original loan and the false basis of Apaturius's present suit.
But since Apaturius has come to such a pitch of shamelessness as to bring suit against me also, charging that I undertook to pay any sum that might be awarded against Parmeno, and since he declares that my name was entered in the articles as surety, I shall free myself from such a charge in the proper way;
For my argument was much stronger, if I admitted the guaranty and appealed to the agreement in accordance with which the arbitration was to be held.
I happened to have no ready money in hand, but being acquainted with Heracleides, the banker, I persuaded him to lend the money, and to take me as surety.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The Athenian legal institution of suretyship, by which Leochares guaranteed Dicaeogenes (III.)'s promise to restore two-thirds of the estate; his alleged breach of this role is the direct legal basis of the present suit.
Yet if he had not given surety in the presence of the judges, five hundred in number, and of those who were present in court, I don't know what he could have done.
) does not perform his agreement, we are bringing an action against Leochares, his surety, in accordance with our affidavit.
) and agreed to hand over these shares without further discussion, and Leochares here undertook to be surety that he would carry out his promise.