Jumping Bail
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A colloquial expression describing the act of the principal in a ball bond in violating the condition of the obligation by failing to do the thing stipulated, as, not appearing in court on a particular day to abide the event of a suit or the order of court, but Instead, withdrawing or fleeing from the jurisdiction. Anderson’s L. Diet.