enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bail in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_in_the_United_States

    As of 2012 Nebraska and Maine in addition to the aforementioned Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon and Wisconsin prohibited surety bail bonds. [29] [failed verification] In 2021, Illinois abolished cash bail in a provision of the SAFE-T Act, which included a number of law enforcement reform measures. After legal challenges, the provision eliminating ...

  3. Writ of attachment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_attachment

    However, unlike a TRO, a prejudgment writ of attachment provides a source of financial recovery for a plaintiff. Usually, a plaintiff seeking a prejudgment writ of attachment must post a surety bond of up to two times the amount of the damages claimed by the plaintiff. Common grounds for obtaining a prejudgment writ of attachment are that a ...

  4. Bail bondsman - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_bondsman

    A bail bondsman, bail bond agent or bond dealer is any person, agency or corporation that will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a defendant in court. Bail bond agents are almost exclusively found in the United States because the practice of bail bonding is illegal in most other countries.

  5. Bail - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail

    In non-bailable cases, bail is not the right of the accused, but the discretion of the judge if regards the case as fit for the grant of bail, it regards imposition of certain conditions as necessary in the circumstances. Section 437(3) elaborates the conditions set by the law to get bail in non-bailable offences.

  6. Surety - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surety

    A surety bond is defined as a contract among at least three parties: [1] the obligee: the party who is the recipient of an obligation; the principal: the primary party who will perform the contractual obligation; the surety: who assures the obligee that the principal can perform the task; European surety bonds can be issued by banks and surety ...

  7. Judge temporarily blocks Georgia law that limits people or ...

    www.aol.com/news/judge-temporarily-blocks...

    A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked part of a Georgia law that restricts organizations from helping people pay bail so they can be released while their criminal cases are pending. U.S ...

  8. Bounty hunter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunter

    The State of Connecticut has a detailed licensing process which requires any person who wants to engage in the business as a bail enforcement agent (bounty hunter) to first obtain a professional license from the Commissioner of Public Safety; specifically detailing that "No person shall, as surety on a bond in a criminal proceeding or as an ...

  9. Exoneration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoneration

    The term "exoneration" also is used in criminal law to indicate a surety, i.e. bail bond has been satisfied, completed, and exonerated. The judge orders the bond exonerated; the clerk of court time stamps the original bail bond power and indicates exonerated as the judicial order.