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  • 21Bail — (franz. bäl), Pacht, Miethe, Miethzins …

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  • 22Bail — bail, baille nm et nf barrière, palissade, lieu clos, premières défenses d une ville anc. fr …

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  • 23bail — [n] money for assurance bond, collateral, guarantee, pawn, pledge, recognizance, security, surety, warrant, warranty; concepts 318,332 …

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  • 24bail|ee — «BAY LEE», noun. a person to whom goods are committed in bailment …

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  • 25bail|ie — «BAY lee», noun. 1. an official of a Scottish town or city corresponding to an English alderman. 2. Obsolete. a bailiff. ╂[< Old French bailli, later variant of baillif bailiff] …

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  • 26bail|or — «BAY luhr», noun. a person who delivers goods in trust …

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  • 27Bail — Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court in order to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail (and be guilty of the crime of… …

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  • 28bail — bail1 [beıl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: keeping someone as a prisoner , from baillier to deliver, keep as a prisoner , from Medieval Latin bajulare to control , from Latin bajulus someone who carries loads ] 1.) [U] money left with …

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  • 29bail — I n. 1) to grant, set bail 2) to post, put up, stand bail for; (colloq.) to go bail for 3) to make, raise bail 4) to deny smb. bail 5) to forfeit, jump, skip bail 6) on bail (to release smb. on bail; to be set free on a thousand dollars bail) II… …

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  • 30bail — bail1 /bayl/, Law. n. 1. property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time. 2. the person who agrees to be liable if someone released from custody does not return at an appointed time. 3. the… …

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