Bail bond

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• bail-bond

  The obligation entered into by sureties. Also when a person appears as proxy for the master of a ves...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bail

  ·noun Custody; keeping. II. Bail ·noun A certain limit within a forest. III. Bail ·noun A division...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bond

  ·noun A vassal or serf; a slave. II. Bond ·noun Moral or political duty or obligation. III. Bond ·...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bond

  An obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bail

  I. n. «A framework for securing the head ofa cow while she is milked.» (`O.E.D.') This word, mark...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bail

  (Fr. baille.) The handle of a pail, bucket, or kettle.--Forby's Glossary. A common word throughout N...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bail

  A surety. The cargo of a captured or detained vessel is not allowed to be taken on bail before adjud...

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• Bond servant

  ·- A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bond service

  ·- The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bond Court

  East out of Walbrook at No.31, but no thoroughfare (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook Ward. Not a thoroug...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• buck bail

  Bail given by a sharper for one of the gang. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jew bail

  Insufficient bail: commonly Jews, who for a sum of money will bail any action whatsoever, and justif...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bail

  Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bail up

  v. 1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking. 2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leg bail

  To give leg bail, is to run away.--Grose. Sae weel's he'd fley the student's a', Whan they were sk...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bond-man

  A harsh method in some ships, in keeping one man bound for the good behaviour of another on leave. ...

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• bottomry-bond

  See bottomree ...

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• leg-bail

  Dishonest desertion from duty. The phrase is not confined to its nautical bearing. ...

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• Post-obit bond

  ·- A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds hi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bond of bottomry

  An authority to borrow money, by pledging the keel or bottom of the ship. (See bottomry.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Head, Sir Francis Bond

  (1793-1875) Traveller, essayist, and biographer, served in the Engineers, went to South America as ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin