184, 53 S. W. 1060.— Bond tenants. In English law. Copyholders and gi spheeea! tenants are sometimes so called. 2 Bl. Comm. 148.— Oficial] bond. .A bond given by a public officer, conditioned that he shall well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office. The term is sometimes made to include the bonds of executors, guardians, trustees, etc. —Simple bond. At common law, a bond without penalty; a bond for the Peet of a definite sum of money to a named obligee on demand or on a day certain. Burnside v. Wand, 170 Mo. 631, 71 S. W. 337, 62 L. R. A. 427. —Single bond. <A deed whereby the obligor obliges himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money to the obligee at a day named, without terms of defeasance.