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SURETYSHIP Definition & Legal Meaning

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The contract of suretyship is that whereby one obligates himself to pay the debt of another in consideration of credit or indulgence, or other benefit given to his principal, the principal remaining bound therefor. It differs from a guaranty iu this: that the consideration of the latter is a benefit flowing to the guarantor. Code Ga. 1S82,

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