Excessive
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In order that bail required (or punishment inflicted) should be described as “excessive,” it nnust be, per se, unreasonably great and clearly disproportionate to the oifense involved, or the peculiar circumstances appearing must show ib to be so in the particular case.
44 Cal. 558; 53 Cal. 410; 39 Conn. 484,