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Good behaviour, security for. The exercise of preventive justice, which consists in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance or obligation to the Crown, and taken in some Court, by some judicial officer; whereby the parties acknowledge themselves to be indebted to the Crown in the sum required, with the condition to be void if the party shall be of good behaviour, either general or especially for the time therein limited. See (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), s. 25; see, further, (English) Probation of Offenders Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17); (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), ss. 26(2), 39(3); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.'

Security for Convicted Drunkard.--The (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (Edw. 7, c. 28), enables a Court on conviction of a person for drunkenness in a public place, etc., to order him to enter into a recognizance, with or without sureties, to be of good behaviour.