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Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Inferior; preliminary. The court below is the court from which a cause has been removed. See "Bail."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Inferior, as the court below.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Inferior; preliminary. The court below is the court from which a cause has been removed. See Bail.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In practice. Inferior; of Inferior jurisdiction or jurisdiction in the first instance. The court from which a cause is removed for review is called the "court below." Preliminary; auxiliary or instrumental. Bail to the sheriff is called "bail below," as being preliminary to and intended to secure the putting in of bail above, or special bath See Bail.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Inferior;' of inferior jurisdiction: as, the cause is removed by appeal or writ of error. or instrumental: as, bail to the sheriff which is as being preliminary to, and intended to secure bail above, or special bail v. Above.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In practice. Persons who undertake that a defendant arrested upon mesne process in a civil action shall duly appear to answer the plaintiff; such undertaking being in the form of a bond given to the sheriff, termed a “bail-bond,” (g. 2.) 3 Bl. Comm. 290; 1 Tidd, Pr. 221.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Compare Above; Infba.