Questione giuridica chiave
How to classify the 4 August 1993 declaration: independent guarantee, debt assumption, porte-fort, or suretyship?
Decisione estratta
The declaration was an accessory guarantee of another's debt and therefore a suretyship.
Motivazione estratta
B. did not owe the fees herself; the text and circumstances showed she intended to secure her son’s or his companies’ fee debt, not to assume a separate independent obligation or a debt assumption.