Bailable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bailableBailable offence
Bailable offence, means an offence which is shown as bailable in the First Schedule, or which is made bailable by any other law for the time being in force; and 'non-bailable a offence' means any other offence. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (a)]...
Bailable
Bailable. An arresting process is said to be bailable when bail can be given, and the person arrested may obtain his liberty in consequence. See BAIL.Means eligible for bail, Webster's Dictionary of Law, p. 41....
bailable
bailable 1 : eligible for bail [a provision that all prisoners are before conviction] 2 : appropriate for or allowing bail [offenses that were not ] ...
Bail
Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail, because the party arrested or imprisoned is delivered into the hands of those who bind themselves or become bail for his due appearance when required, in order that he may be safely protected from prison, to which they have, if they fear his escape, etc., the legal power to deliver him.Means a security such as cash or a bond, especially security required by court for the release of a prisoner who must appear at a further time, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 135.Bail, a temporary release of a prisoner in exchange for security given for the prisoner's appearance at a later hearing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., (2005), p. 41.Bail may be given either in civil or criminal cases.In civil cases there were, before the abolition of arrest on mesne process by the Debtors Act, 1869:-(1)...
Bailable
Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail upon bond with sureties used of persons...
Capias
Capias (that you take). The writ of capias (which was a writ directing the sheriff to take the body of the defendant), as a means of commencing an action at Common Law, was altogether abolished, and a new writ, called a 'capias on mesne process,' or 'bailable process,' was introduced by the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 3, which limited the application of the writ to cases in which the cause of action amounted to 20l. or upwards, and the debtor was about to quit England, unless forthwith apprehended; see now the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), s. 6, abolishing arrest on mesne process; and see MESNE PROCESS....
Mainpernable
Mainpernable, capable of being bailed; bailable, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964....
Ponendum in ballium
Ponendum in ballium, a writ commanding that a prisoner be bailed in cases bailable, Reg. Brev. 133....
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