2006-08-06 07:13:08 · 19 answers · asked by annamaria m 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Freedom to go about your everyday life with the provision that you attend a court/police station on specified dates. Failure to do so could result in loss of bail.
2006-08-06 07:18:26 · answer #1 · answered by LONDONER © 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means you are have been released from a police station after being arrested, but you have to return to a police station or court if you have been charged with a criminal offence on a certain date. It can be conditional bail or unconditional.
Unconditional meaning you just have to turn up on that date.
Conditional bail may mean you are not allowed to contact a witness, go within an area or you may have to have a home curfew. You can also have a bail bond (called a surety) where someone has to put up a load of money to make sure you turn up to court.
If there is reason to think you will not turn up at court (ie. you murdered someone and you will do a runner or you got no home) you can be refused bail and kept in police custody to court. Then the court will decide if you get bail.
If you breach your bail (not turn up or breach a condition) you can be arrested and taken to a police station to be taken to court.
That's in the UK, maybe a bit different in the US where I think bail can also just means a surety.
2006-08-06 07:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by Robert W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In England Bail is when you have committed an offence, you go to court and before sentencing to are bailed to return at a later date ( free until you next court date.) you are normally bailed to an address. Failing to return will result in you being arrested. Severe cases you won't get bailed. Some countries if you are bailed you have to pay such an amount to get relesed. Good luck
2006-08-06 07:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by shelz042000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Temporary release someone from custody, secured by money or some other promise. 2. Boat full of water, bail it out. 3. Put the bails on the cricket stumps. 4. Go buy a dictionary.
2006-08-06 07:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Bail is set at $100, once the person arrest for it can come up with the money, he is allowed to be let free until his trial is over. It is a promise that he will come back & show up for court. I believe that if he/she wins the case, that they get the bail back.
2006-08-06 07:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are ever bailed then their are two types of bail I know of. The first is police bail where you are bailed to re-appear at a police station at a later date, usually for further questioning or to be charged.
Bail from a court (magistrates or crown court) is different as it is actually 'remanded on bail' which could be on conditions i/.e to re-appear at the court at a later date, co-operate with probation, not to contact certain people or to go to certain places etc.
The remand bit is very important because if you were not on bail then you would either be in 'remand in custody (stay in jail till the next court date), or very similar could be to be remanded to the care of the local authority (very common for defendants in youth cases, who come from difficult or dangerous backgrounds), or 'remand in secure accommodation' (the court could have concerns over your mental state), Incidentally you can be remanded in custody for your own protection (if you were a particularly vulnerable person for example).
Every defendant is considered on their own set of circumstances and the information that is presented to the court.
2006-08-09 10:49:54 · answer #6 · answered by alx n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bail is generally applied by a court, Magistrates or Crown, whereby the defendant is Remanded in custody (RIC)...or released on conditional or unconditional bail.
Conditional bail(ROCB) means that the defendant has to fulfil certain criteria ie..to reside at a particular address, not approach a witness/victim...attend probation or DIP, etc.
Unconditional bail(ROUCB) is exactly what it says on the tin
2006-08-06 07:22:16 · answer #7 · answered by lippz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bail means to get out
2006-08-06 07:17:09 · answer #8 · answered by jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apart from the above answers - two bails sit on top of a set of 3 cricket stumps!
2006-08-07 03:32:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bail:
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
Release from imprisonment provided by the payment of such money.
A person who provides this security.
tr.v. bailed, bail·ing, bails
To secure the release of by providing security.
To release (a person) for whom security has been paid.
Informal. To extricate from a difficult situation: always bailing you out of trouble.
To transfer (property) to another for a special purpose but without permanent transference of ownership.
2006-08-06 07:20:08 · answer #10 · answered by lyndsay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋