cautionry Sc. Law.
(ˈkɔːʃənrɪ)
Also -ary, erie.
[f. cautioner + -y: see -ery, -ry.]
The position of a cautioner, suretyship. bond of cautionry: = bond of caution; see caution n. 1.
| 1636 Rutherford Lett. lix. (1862) I. 159 Christ's act of cautionary. 1640–1 Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 74 Johne Makmollan..cautioner for David Makmollan..presentit the said David and protests to be liberatit of his cautionerie. 1630 Acts Chas. I (1814) VI. 167 (Jam.) Their just and true ingagements, and cautionries. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 297 Bonds of cautionary. |