Bail
Definition
The conditional release of an accused person from custody pending trial, usually against a bond and sometimes a surety.
Related terms
- Anticipatory Bail
- A court order granted before arrest that directs the police to release a named person on bail if they are arrested on...
- Judicial Remand
- An order by a magistrate or judge committing an accused person to custody, police or judicial, during investigation or trial.
- Preventive Detention
- Holding a person without a fresh criminal trial because the state judges them likely to commit an offence in future, a forward-looking...
- Surety
- A person who undertakes to the court, backed by a financial bond, that the released accused will appear when required.
- Bail Bond
- The financial instrument, a sum of money or property, that backs a surety's undertaking and is forfeited if the accused fails to...
- Police Custody
- Detention of an arrested person under direct police control for questioning, tightly time limited and subject to a magistrate's authorisation beyond the...
- Police Remand
- Custody of an arrested person held by the investigating agency itself, subject to a strict statutory time limit before a magistrate must...