单词 | surety for good behaviour |
释义 | > as lemmassurety for (the) good behaviour a. A pledge, bond, or security given as a guarantee of good conduct, the fulfilment of certain duties, etc. Also: money, etc., deposited or pledged by or on behalf of a person, and liable to be forfeited in the event of failure to abide by an agreement or fulfil certain conditions. In later use often in surety for (the) good behaviour. Cf. surety of (the) peace at Phrases 2 and security n. 5.Recorded earliest in to do surety at Phrases 1a(a). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] sickerness?c1225 caution1297 plevina1325 suretyc1330 assurec1374 sickerty1405 baila1593 assinat1652 the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a pledge or security warrantisea1300 surancec1300 borrow-gage1303 suretyc1330 wage1338 wed1340 again-behotera1382 hostagec1400 sickeringa1450 gage1486 soverty1488 vadimonyc1503 pledge1526 slauntiagh1535 band1596 mortgage1598 ward and warsela1600 covenant1644 guaranty1697 security1711 guaranteeship1715 cautionment1815 guarantee1832 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 73 Maseger, do me surte, Þat þow nelt nouȝt discure [MS discrure] me To no wiȝt! a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1463 (MED) Sad seurte was sikered on boþe sides þanne þat menskful mariage to make. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 746 I diffye the seuretee and the bond Which þt thow seist þt I haue maad to thee. c1425 Myrour to Lewde Men & Wymmen (Harl.) (1981) 132 (MED) Þe nynthe maner of oker is when a man takiþ lond or rente in wed or surete for money or oþer good þat he leneþ. 1447 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1447 §11. m. 5 Money by hir receyved, and in suretees remaynyng in the kepyng of the saide Katerine. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cdxxvi. f. cccii There was none that scaped hym, but that payed or founde good suretie to paye. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 835 This match was made in Catoes house, where they all did put in caution or sureties to aunswere the money. 1678 J. Godolphin Repertorium Canonicum xxxiv. 474 As it [sc. adultery] is an offence against the peace of the Realm..the Justices of the Peace may out of their Sessions require Surety for the good Behaviour of such as offend therein. 1692 Acts & Laws Massachussets-Bay 7 Every one to whom any Share shall be allotted, shall give Bond with Sureties before the said Judge of Probate. 1755 R. Burn Justice of Peace II. 455 Liberate to discharge one committed for want of sureties. 1786 Def. Police Bill 38 Justices of the Peace are authorised..to make all who are not of good fame give sufficient surety for their good behaviour. 1828 M.T. C. Gould Rep. Trial of Friends 129 The refusal of the late chief justice to demand surety for good behaviour. 1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 682/1 He required sureties from the parties for the eventual payment by him who was unsuccessful of the sacrament he had offered to stake. 1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. 27 229 The justices are only empowered to take sufficient surety for good behaviour from those who threaten bodily harm or arson. 2001 Internat. Labor & Working-class Hist. 60 149 Women also placed their commercial property as a surety to obtain loans from moneylenders. < as lemmas |
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