Sc. Law. Also -ary, -erie. [f. CAUTIONER + -Y: see -ERY, -RY.] The position of a cautioner, suretyship. Bond of cautionry: = bond of caution; see CAUTION sb. 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.
