Sp. in Spanish law, trust, con-fldence, and correlatively a legal duty or ob-ligatiou arising therefrom. The term is suffl-clentiy broad lu meanlng to include both a general obligation and a restricted liability under a single Instrument Martinez v. Run-kle. 57 N. J. Law, 111, 30 Atl. 593. But in a special sense, it designates a surety or guarantor, or the contract or engagement of suretyship
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
