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Mainpernor [fr. main, Fr., hand, and preneur taker]. See MAINPRIZE.Mainpernor, 1. A surety for a prisoner's appearance; one who gives main prise for another. 2. A form of bail taken under a writ of mainprise, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964....
post
post : to put up (as bond) [ bail] ...
Bailpiece
A piece of parchment or paper containing a recognizance or bail bond...
Arrest of ship
Arrest of ship. The arrest of a ship is the method employed for enforcing an Admiralty process in rem. The ship can be released by giving bail to the extent of the claim and costs. See SHIPOWNER, R. S. C. Ord. V., rr. 15 and 16, and Roscoe's Admiralty Practice. When the arrest is malicious, an action will lie without proof of actual damage (The 'Walter D.Wallett,' 1893, P. 202)....
Odio et atia
Odio et atia, a writ anciently called breve de bono etmalo, addressed to the sheriff to inquire whether a man committed to prison upon suspicion of murder were committed on just cause of suspicion, or only upon malice and ill-will; and if, upon the inquisition, it was found that he was not guilty, then there issued another writ to the sheriff to bail him, Reg. Brev. 133. But the practice now is to issue a habeas corpus...
Order-on-default
Order-on-default, an order for release on bail under proviso (a) of s. 167(2) of the Code read with s. 20(4) of TADA is generally termed as an 'order-on-default' as it is granted on account of the default of the prosecution to complete the investigation and file the challan within the prescribed period, Hitendra Vishnu Thakur v. State of Maharashtra, (1994) 4 SCC 602: AIR 1994 SC 2623 (2636)....
Stipulation
Stipulation, bargain; also, a recognizance of certain fidejussors in the nature of bail, taken in the Admiralty Courts.It is the highest and most authentic contract known to the Civil Law, entered into before the magistrate or public officer, through the medium of interrogatories and answers calculated to explain the nature and extent of the undertaking, to put the parties entering into it on their guard, and to show it to be their mature and deliberate act. It could not be impeached except for fraud or deceit, and could not be released or discharged except by an equally solemn proceeding, conducted by question and answer before the public functionary, called an acceptilation, Vinnius, 677; Sand. Just., 7th Edn. 332....
Undertaking
Undertaking, denotes 'any business or any work or project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade, Secretary Madras Gymkhana Club Employees Union v. Manage-ment of Gymkhana Club, AIR 1968 SC 554: (1968) 2 SCJ 138: (1968) 1 SCA 379: (1967) 2 SCWR 618: (1967) 2 Lab LJ 720: 33 FJR 157: (1968) Lab JC 547: (1968) 2 Andh WR (SC) 6: (1968) 2 Mad LJ (SC) 6: 15 Fac LR 411: 16 Law Rep 140.Undertaking, denotes, with reference to company law, all the assets of the company past present and future, and is a mortgageable interest being commonly charged by the debentures of the company. 'Undertaking' means a unit, such as a factory or a granary, Industrial Disputes Tribunal (in re:), (1956) 3 All ER 111.Undertaking, in a compromise decree does not mean a promise to a court. It is merely a solemn promise by one party to the other when it appears in an agreement between the two, Nisha Kant Roy v. Sandji Bashnai, Goho, AIR 1948 Cal 294: 49 Cr LJ 567.Undertaking, i...
Manucaptor
Manucaptor, one who stands bail for another....
De odio et atia
De odio et atia, an obsolete writ which commanded the sheriff to inquire whether a prisoner charged with murder was committed on general cause of suspicion, or merely propter odium et atiam, for hatred and ill-will, with a view, if the latter were found to be the case, of afterwards issuing another writ to admit him to bail, 1 Reeves, 252...
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