bail exoneration
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 83 U.S. 366 - Taylor v. Taintor · 1872Most cited · 606 citing opinions
The bail will be exonerated where the performance of the condition is rendered impossible by the act of God, the act of the obligee, or the act of the law.
How often courts cite the case defining “bail exoneration”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bail exoneration” — 604 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.