Definition of bail

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Bail (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat..

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Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Bail :: Bail (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
Bailor :: Bailor (n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..
Burghmaster :: Burghmaster (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster..
Bail :: Bail (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one..
Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.
Bailing :: Bailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bai.
Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons..
Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..
Bailpiece :: Bailpiece (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond..
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..
Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.
Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense..
Ne Exeat :: Ne exeat () A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree..
Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.
Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..
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