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

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

Bail Bond :: Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.

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

Surety :: Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail..

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..

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

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

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

Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.

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

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

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