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Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

Bailee :: Bailee (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust..

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..

Bailer :: Bailer (n.) One who bails or lades.

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

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Bale :: Bale (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A certain limit within a forest.

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

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

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Same as Bailie.

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons..

Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..

Bailiffwick :: Bailiffwick (n.) See Bailiwick.

Scoop :: Scoop (n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats..

Bailer :: Bailer (n.) See Bailor.

Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

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..

Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

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