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Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..

Pail :: Pail (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover..

Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.

Bailie :: Bailie (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman..

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

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

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

Bailpiece :: Bailpiece (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond..

Errant :: Errant (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable..

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

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods..

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

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..

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..

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver; to release.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc..

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

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..

Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.

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