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bail

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to procure someone's release from prison" (by posting bail), 1580s, from bail (n.1); usually with out . Related: Bailed ; bailing .

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Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail , on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail (and possibly be brought up on charges of the crime ...

Usage examples of bail.

March and April, 1952, comparable results were reached: The Internal Security Act of 1950, section 23, in authorizing the Attorney General to hold in custody, without bail, aliens who are members of the Communist Party of the United States, pending determination as to their deportability, is not unconstitutional.

One emblematic evening I watched Franklin pump to apogee and bail out, no doubt escaping one of those avuncular Flying Fortresses on a parachute that thighs sacrificed their stocking silks for.

I can have my cake and eat it too, you know, in regards to not bailing on Ruby.

I think first of bailing out, but who can tell where the wind will carry the parachute?

The magistrate was kept waiting another ten minutes before the bail bondsman arrived.

Before he got cailed up and sent to the Gulf, he was a base bail player--minor leagues.

Just then the poor vetturino came in and kissed my hand, saying that if I would go bail for the count he would let me have three months wherein to find the money.

I felt angry with the impudent woman who had hitherto paid me so little attention, and I wrote that I could only pity her, and that I had no time to go and see her, and that I should be ashamed to ask anyone to bail her out.

I signified to him that I was awaiting bail, and that he could take me to Newgate in the evening if it did not come, but he only turned a deaf ear to my petition.

I asked the landlord why he did not go bail, as he had these persons and their effects as security.

He was inching toward that line and was close to crossing it, and though Gaskins would have liked nothing better than to bail out on him, he felt he was trapped.

As soon as the police had handed me over to the gaoler, he informed me that by payment of the fifty thousand francs, or by giving good bail, I might instantly regain my freedom.

I went bail for my brother who had contracted debts he was sure of paying, as he had several pictures on the easel which he had been ordered to paint by some of his rich and noble patrons.

But in the course of half an hour, the constable who had tried to get ten guineas out of me told me that bail had arrived and that my carriage was at the door.

Just as I was going, five or six well-known Englishmen appeared to bail me out, and were mortified to hear that they had come too late.