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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..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.

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.

Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.

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

Bumbailiff :: Bumbailiff (n.) See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a..

Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To bail.

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..

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..

Greeve :: Greeve (n.) A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff..

Bailiwick :: Bailiwick (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..

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