Definition of bail

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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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Bailpiece :: Bailpiece (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond..
Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense..
Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
Bailment :: Bailment (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
Wich :: Wich (n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick..
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..
Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..
Handle :: Handle (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc..
Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.
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..
Bailing :: Bailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bai.
Bailment :: Bailment (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed..
Surety :: Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail..
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver; to release.
Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Bailer :: Bailer (n.) One who bails or lades.
Bail :: Bail (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat..
Bail :: Bail (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable..
Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
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