Bail in Europe

Definition of Bail

An accused person is said at common law to be admitted to bail when lie is released from the custody of officers of the law and is entrusted to the custody of persons known as his sureties, who are bound to produce him to answer, at a specified time and place, the charge against him and who, in default of so doing, are liable to forfeit such sum as is specified when bail is granted. A contract, whether by a person bailed or by a third party, to indemnify a surety is void as being against public policy and is a misdemeanour. The sureties are also said to become bail. It is in the discretion of a justice to admit to bail, except for treason, when bail can only be granted by a Secretary of State or a Judge. The justices may dispense with sureties and release the accused upon his own recognisance
Under the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, the police in general are given power to take bail, where arrest is made without warrant, and by the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, before the charge is accepted
In Admiralty proceedings, where a ship or other property has been arrested, the owner may generally have it released on giving bail, with two sureties, to an amount equal to the value of the property

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Definition of Bail is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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