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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..

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

Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..

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.

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

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

Caution :: Caution (n.) Security; guaranty; bail.

Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.

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..

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

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

Bail :: Bail (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat..

Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense..

Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail..

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..

Hire :: Hire (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward..

Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..

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

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