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1. An emergency or fortuitous infusion of cash or other helpful action that remedies a current problem, for example, a loan may come through to provide a company with operating capital after an officer made a mistake resulting in a cash shortfall. 2. To pay a defendant's bail money which allows the defendant to be released from jail as a result. … [Read more...] about BAIL OUT

In old Scotch law. A poor Insolvent debtor, left bare and naked, who was obliged to swear In court that he was not worth more than five shillings and five pence. … [Read more...] about BAIR-MAN

A bond given by one to a surety, to indemnify such surety in case of loss. In Scotland, a back-bond is an instrument which, in conjunction with another which gives an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust. A declaration of trust. … [Read more...] about BACK-BOND

A plea that doesn't contain sufficient facts or has flaws in its presentation. … [Read more...] about BAD PLEA

A certificate given by a judge or the clerk of the court, or other person authorized to keep the record, in which it is certified that A B, the bail, became bail, for C D, the defendant, in a certain sum, and in a particular case. It was the practice formerly, to write these certificates upon small pieces of parchment, in the following form: (See 3 Bl. Com. Appendix.) In the … [Read more...] about BAIL PIECE