The word 'guarantees' in a commercial instrument not prepared by a lawyer may be construed colloquially as meaning 'warrants, promises or assures' rather than in its technical legal sense as creating a secondary obligation, particularly where the instrument as a whole uses the language of a lending transaction and no primary obligor other than the purported guarantor can be identified.
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