bail
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 1 - Stack v. Boyle · 1951Most cited · 2,376 citing opinions
The right to release before trial is conditioned upon the accused's giving adequate assurance that he will stand trial and submit to sentence if found guilty.
How often courts cite the cases defining “bail”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “bail” — 2,977 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1872–1951
- ORIGINAL
When bail is given, the principal is regarded as delivered to the custody of his sureties. Their dominion is a continuance of the original imprisonment. Whenever they choose to do so, they may seize him and deliver him up in their discharge; and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done.
custody of sureties