Excessive bail shall not he required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

If unawares, My justice to myself and heirs, Hath let my debtor rot in jail, For want of good sufficient bail; If I by writ, or bond, or deed, Reduced a family to need, 20 My will hath made the world amends; My hope on charity depends.

Eventually they told me it removed the left bail, and struck the wicket-keeper a fearful blow on the chest.

The next day, at the police-court, the preposterous bail of £400 was demanded for Mr. Knight and supplied by my faithful band, and on the next hearing Mr. Poland, solicitor to the Treasury, withdrew the charge against him for lack of evidence!

I thought for a moment that she had swamped and was sinking; but as I rose to a crouching posture and rubbed the saltwater out of my eyes, I saw that she was less than half full, and that if we did not ship another sea too soon, prompt and energetic bailing might yet keep her afloat.

The hoop at the upper edge was also sewed to the paunch, and a rawhide bail passed under it, to carry it by.

He fixed a pretty stiff bail, but the local lawyer was there with a bondsman, and I came back.

V. give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn, impawn^, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate^. guarantee, warrant, warrantee, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure; cosign, countersign, sponsor, cosponsor. execute, stamp; sign, seal &c (evidence) 467. let, sett^; grant a lease, take a lease, hold a lease; hold in pledge; lend on security &c 787.

But if no suitable bail is offered, or if the offense is not bailable, the accused is committed to jail.

I was so tired bailing and standing lookout that when they set us down on the wharf at Rockaway, I could have slept standing on my head.

On the following day, officers who had heard of the burglary, and that a thief was prisoner in the Maylie house, came from London to arrest him, but Dr. Losberne and Mrs. Maylie shielded him, and their joint bail was accepted for the boy's appearance in court if it should ever be required.