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Rh particularly with pleading and practice are argued and determined. Holthouse.—Bail in error. That given by a defendant who intends to bring a writ of error on the judgment and desire a stay of execution in the mean time.—Bail piece. A formal entry or memorandum of the recognizance or undertaking of special bail in civil actions, which, after being signed and acknowledged by the bail before the proper officer, is filed in the court in which the action is pending. 3 Bl. Comm. 291; 1 Tidd, Pr. 250; Worthen v. Prescott, 60 Vt. 68, 11 Atl. 690; Nicolls v. Ingersoll. 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 154.—Bail to the action or bail above. Special bail, (q. v.)—Bail to the sheriff, or bail below. In practice. Persons who undertake that a defendant arrested upon mesne process in a civil action shall duly appear to answer the plaintiff; such undertaking being in the form at a bond given to the sheriff, termed a "bail-bond," (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 290; 1 Tidd. Pr. 221.—Civil bail. That taken in civil actions.—Special bail. In practice. Persons who undertake jointly and severally in behalf of a defendant arrested on mesne process in a civil action that, if he be condemned in the action, he shall pay the costs and condemnation, (that is, the amount which may he recovered against him,) or render himself a prisoner, or that they will pay it for him. 3 Bl. Comm. 291; 1 Tidd, Pr. 245.—Straw bail. Nominal or worthless bail. Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor.

Fr. In French and Canadian law. A lease of lands.

Capable of being bailed; admitting of bail; authorizing or requiring ball. A bailable action is one in which the defendant cannot be released from arrest except on furnishing bail. Bailable process is such as requires the officer to take bail, after arresting the defendant. A bailable offense is one for which the prisoner may be admitted to bail.

In the law of contracts. One to whom goods are bailed; the party to whom personal property is delivered under a contract of bailment. Phelps v. People, 72 N. Y. 357; McGee v. French, 49 S. C. 454, 27 S. E. 487; Bergman v. People, 177 Ill. 244, 52 N. E. 363; Com. v. Chathams, 50 Pa. 181, 88 Am. Dec. 539.

In the Scotch law. A bailie is (1) a magistrate having interior criminal jurisdiction, similar to that of an alderman, (q. v.;) (2) an officer appointed to confer infeoffment, (q. v.;) a baliff, (q. v.;) a server at writs. Bell.

In a general sense, a person to who some authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction is delivered, committed, or intrusted; one who is deputed or appointed to take charge of another's affairs; an overseer or superintendent; a keeper, protector, or guardian; a steward. Spelman.

A sheriff's officer or deputy. 1. Bl. Comm. 344.

A magistrate, who formerly administered justice in the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English sheriffs as mentioned by Bracton.

In the notion of account render. A person who has by delivery the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the owner or bailor, and is liable to render an account thereof. Co. Litt 271; Story, Eq. Jur. § 446; West v. Weyer, 46 Ohio St. 66, 18 N. E. 537, 15 Am. St. Rep. 552.

A bailiff is defined to be "a servant that has the administration and charge of lands, goods, and chattels, to make the best benefit for the owner, against whom an action of account lay for the profits which he has raised or made, or might by his industry or care have raised or made." Barnum v. Landon, 25 Conn. 149.

In old law. A bailiff's jurisdiction, a bailiwick; the same as bailium. Spelman. See.

In old English law. A liberty, or exclusive jurisdiction, which was exempted from the sheriff of the county, and over which the lord of the liberty appointed a bailiff with such powers within his precinct