Guarantee
for One Customer by One Surety
To,
The
Manager,
_________________
Bank Ltd.,
_________________________.
Dear
Sir,
In
consideration of your opening (or continuing) an account with ________ of
______ (hereinafter called "the customer") I _____________ of
_________ hereby agree to pay and satisfy to you two days after demand upto the
amount hereinafter mentioned all moneys and liabilities already advanced, paid
in, incurred on such account or which you may at any time advance, pay or incur
to or for the use, of accommodation of or on the credit of the customer
(whether on current account or by way of opening or continuation of any new
account special or otherwise in respect of, bills of exchange, promissory
notes, of other negotiable securities drawn, accepted, or endorsed by him, or
otherwise, howsoever), together with all interest, discount, commission and
other banking charges, law and other costs, charges and expenses, which may be
or may become payable in connection therewith.
Provided
nevertheless that my liability on this guarantee shall not exceed in the whole
the sum of Rs. ___/- and interest thereon at the rate of ________ per cent per
annum from the date on which demand for payment shall have been made by you
upon me.
AND
I FURTHER AGREE as follows:
1. This guarantee shall
be continuing guarantee and in full force until three calendar months after I
shall have given or sent to you notice in writing of any intention to
discontinue and determine the same and shall have paid to you all moneys up to
the limit of my liability due at the expiration of such notice and in the event
of my dying or becoming under disability the liability of my executors,
administrators, or legal personal representatives to determine this guarantee;
and you shall be at liberty on receipt of such notice at any time within and
the three calendar months to open a fresh account with the customer, and to
appropriate thereto all payments subsequently made to you by him and not
express appropriated by him to the old account without prejudice to my said
liability to the extent aforesaid.
2. You shall in any case
be at liberty, and without my further assent or knowledge at any time to grant
to the customer or any person liable with or for him, whether as guarantor or
otherwise, any time or indulgence, and to determine, enlarge or vary his
credit, and to vary, exchange or release any other securities held or to be
held by you for or on account of the moneys intended to be hereby secured or
nay part thereof, and to renew any bills, notes, or other negotiable
securities, and to compound or make any other arrangements with him or any
person to liable with or for him, as you may think fit without discharge or in
any manner affecting any liability under this guarantee.
3. If the customer shall
become bankrupt or insolvent or enter into any arrangement or make any
composition with his creditors, you may (notwithstanding payment to you by me
or nay other person of the whole or any part of the amount hereby guaranteed)
rank as creditors and prove against his estate for the full amount of your
claim, or agree to accept any composition in respect of the same, and you may
and shall receive and retain the whole of the dividends, composition or other
payments thereon, to the exclusion of all my rights as guarantor for the
customer in competition with you, until your claim ins fully satisfied; and I
will not, by paying off the sum guaranteed or any part thereof, or upon any
other ground, prove or claim to prove in respect of the sum guaranteed for or
any part thereof, until the whole of your claim against the customer has been
satisfied.
4. To the intent that
you may obtain satisfaction of the whole of your claim against the customer I
agree that you may enforce and recover upon the guarantee the full amount
hereby guaranteed and interest thereof notwithstanding any such proof of
composition as aforesaid and notwithstanding any other guarantee, security or
remedy guarantees, securities, or remedies, which you may hold or be entitled
to in respect of the sum intended to be hereby secured or any part hereof, and
notwithstanding any charges or interest which may be debited in your account current
with the customer, or in any other account upon which he may be liable.
5. Notwithstanding
anything hereinabove contained this guarantee shall extend to all accounts of
the customer whether the same are his solely or are accounts on which he is or
may become liable jointly, in any manner whatsoever, with any company or person
or persons, and in whatever name or firm the same may stand; and this guarantee
shall not be affected by any change in the constitution of the bank; its
successors or assigns; or by its absorption of or by, or its amalgamation with,
any other bank of banks.
As
witnessed my hand this _________ day of _________ 200__
Witness
to the signatures of the __________)
Above
named __________________)
Name
and address and occupation of)
witness.)