Above
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
OR SPECTIAT, BAIL.
In practice
Persons who undertake jointly and severally in behalf of a defendant arrested on inesne process in a civil action that, if he be condemned in the action, he shall pay the costs and condemnation, (that is, the amount which may be recovered against liim,) or render himself a prisoner, or that they will pay it for him.
3 Bl. Comm. 291; 1 Tidd, Pr. 245, 5