Neither does any one else.
Therefore, it's worth at least ten thousand dollars.

That 'll do the trick.

Get out your deeds and that sort of thing--we 'll have to file them with the bond as security." "But that will ruin us!" "How so?
A bond 's nothing more than a mortgage.

It doesn't stop you from working on the mine.

All it does is give evidence that your friend and partner will be on the job when the bailiff yells oyez, oyez, oyez.