Definition of bail

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Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..

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Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
Bailor :: Bailor (n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
Bailiffwick :: Bailiffwick (n.) See Bailiwick.
Bail :: Bail (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
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..
Bailing :: Bailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bai.
Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Bailey :: Bailey (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester..
Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..
Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.
Bailie :: Bailie (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman..
Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..
Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense..
Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.
Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.
Burghmaster :: Burghmaster (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster..
Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
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