"guaranty" Definition

Definitions for the word "guaranty" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 written or other undertaking to answer for the payment of a debt or for the performance of an obligation by another person liable in the first instance. 2 thing serving as security.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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