What is mean by Suretyship
Suretyship is a contract between a people called a surety and a creditor or obligor, who in this relationship is called the principal. The surety promises the creditor to pay the principal’s debt or make good his default or pay damages for his tort. This is frequently done at the same time that the debt or obligation is created and often in the same instrument. The consideration for the surety’s promise may be the making of the contract, or the entering into some other relationship with the principal. In other cases, specific consideration may be furnished by the creditor to the surety, Upon the principal’s default, or whenever the creditor may enforce his claim against the principal, he may sure the principal and surety jointly or severally, and payment by either is a discharge pro tanto of both obligations.
Sureties at common law were as a rule uncompensated, and for the reason their contracts were considered “uberrimae fidei” and interpreted as much as possible in favor of the surety. At the present time, sureties are for the most part corporations who perform their duties for compensation, generally in the form of a periodically paid premium. Courts are inclined, therefore, to treat these contracts like any other and apply ordinary rules of interpretation. Indeed, since the contract is often contained in printed forms furnished by the surety, the rules of interpretation applied are likely to favor the creditor.
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