Countersecurity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Countersecurity is a noun meaning A commitment to guarantee the security (property or bonding in securing a loan) of someone who has become security for another.
Meaning
A commitment to guarantee the security (property or bonding in securing a loan) of someone who has become security for another.
Example Sentences
This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans' Court of Frederick County requiring the appellant, the surviving executor of John Sifford, deceased, to give countersecurity.
Sir John's executors, under colour of some countersecurities given to Sir John and some assignments of judgments, unjustly compelled Sir Arthur to pay 1,600l. and upwards for debts from which Sir John had discharged him.
Word Forms
- countersecurities
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