GUARANTEE Copy link • GUARANTEESecurity for the due performance of stipulations, etc., satisdatio (the pledging one’s self, especially by giving a sum of money as security): fidei jussio (Jurisconsulti, the giving security for anybody; he was asked, id fide tua esse jubes? Ulp., Dig., 45, 1, 75, §6): verbal guarantees, satisdationes secundum mancipium (Cic., Att., 5, 1; i. e., only promises). Person who gives the guarantee, cautor (general term): sponsor: vas [SYN. in SURETY]: fidejussor: confirmator (only in pecuniary cases; ☞ Cic., Cluent., 26, 77): to be anybody’s guarantee for a large amount, intercedere pro aliquo magnam pecuniam (Cic.).