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▪ I. guaranty, n.|ˈgærəntɪ|
Also 7 garranty, -ie, guarranty.
[ad. AF. guarantie (also warantie, warranty), f. guarant, warant (see warrant).]
1. The action or an act of securing, warranting, or guaranteeing; security, warranty; spec. a written undertaking made by a person (called the guarantor) to be answerable for the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation by another person, who is in the first instance liable to such payment or obligation.
1592Expos. Terms Law 103 Garrantie of charters is a writ, & it lyeth where any deede is made that comprehendeth a clause of warrantie..and if the tenant be impleaded by a stranger..then [etc.]. Ibid. 106 Garrantie, is when one is bound to an other which hath land, to warrant y⊇ land to him. 1665Temple Let. to Dk. Ormond Wks. 1731 II. 25 We have some Ground of Complaint, seeing the Emperor's Name among all the other Princes in the Guarranty of the Munster Peace. 1678Marvell Growth Popery Wks. 1875 IV. 266 His Majesty..continued to solicit other princes..to come into the guaranty of this treaty. 1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 151 The league of guaranty is said to advance apace. 1682Ibid. I. 166 The ratifications of the treaty of guaranty between the King of Sweden and the states generall are exchanged. 1725–6Bolingbroke Study Hist. vii. (1752) 226 They consented to give Spain an act of guaranty for securing the execution of the treaty. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. ix. ii. 217 This article concludes with a reciprocal guaranty of the provinces of Persia. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt I. iv. 74 Our guaranty of the pragmatic sanction was an effect of that enmity. a1850J. C. Calhoun Wks. I. 334 The guaranty of a republican form of government. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. vi. 302 They are to ask assistance in men and money upon a mere taliter qualiter guaranty. 1860Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law §105 (1875) 127 Treaties of guaranty..are especially accessory stipulations, sometimes incorporated in the main instrument, and sometimes appended to it, in which a third power promises to give aid to one of the treaty-making powers, in case certain specific rights—all or a part of those conveyed to him in the instrument—are violated by the other party. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iii. 91 To give a guaranty for his good behaviour. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §10. 715 England alone showed herself true to her guaranty of the Austrian Succession. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 405 The most noticeable rule of English law respecting the contract of guaranty is that it must be in writing.
†2. A person who gives a guaranty (sense 1) or ‘undertakes to see stipulations performed’ (J.). Obs.
1684Scanderbeg Rediv. vi. 152 Offering him very good Termes, for the performance of which he would be Guaranty. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 560 God..is the great Guaranty for the Peace, Order, and good Behaviour of Mankind.
3. Something which secures or guarantees the existence or persistence of a thing; a ground or basis of security.
1697Let. Necess. Land Force 2 Yet the best Guaranty of a Peace, is a good Force to maintain it. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) IV. vii. 67, I have no doubt of overcoming her unhappy Mother, by making her husband's interest a guaranty for her..good behaviour to her child. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. viii. 116 Four or five places of importance..were to be held as guaranties by the French king. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iv. 151 Requiring baptism and nominal homage as guaranties for peace. 1871Ibid. IV. xvii. 4 The consecration of William by the Northumbrian Primate might be looked on as some sort of guaranty..for the obedience of his province.
▪ II. guaranty, v.|ˈgærəntɪ|
Now rare, superseded by guarantee v. Also 8 guarranty.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. = guarantee v. 1.
1753Scots Mag. Jan. 8/2 Her allies should engage to guaranty the tranquillity of the north. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 58 They talk of their pretended immunities guarrantied by the plighted faith of Government. 1779–81― Fredk. Gt. Wks. IV. 545 He was ready to guaranty all the German Dominions of the House of Austria. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1813 (4°) VI. 693 His..request of the Company's guarantying his treaty with the Vizier. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan xiii. 301 That friendly intercourse with the Japanese which was guarantied by the compact solemnly entered into between Japan and the United States. a1861Mrs. Browning Bianca iii, God's Ever guaranties this Now. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 402 The fidejussor may be employed to guaranty any obligation.
2. = guarantee v. 2.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 289 The respective districts which they had allotted for and guarantied to each other.
3. = guarantee v. 3. Also, to secure (a person) in the possession of something.
1732Gentl. Mag. II. 945 The Establishment of an Indivisibility, and Primogeniture in Favour of the eldest Arch-dutchess, guaranty'd contra quoscunque. 1783Burke Rep. Affairs India Wks. 1813 (8°) XI. 265 The allowances made by the Company to the Presidents of Bengal were abundantly sufficient to guaranty them against any thing like a necessity for giving into that pernicious practice. 1786― W. Hastings ibid. XII. 94 Who..did not only guaranty him in the possession of what he then actually held, but engaged to restore all the other territories.
Hence ˈguarantied ppl. a.
1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1813 (4°) VI. 697 To exact a due observance of the guarantied treaty. |