What's the difference between bail and recognizance?

Bail


Definition:

  • (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
  • (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
  • (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
  • (v./t.) To deliver; to release.
  • (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
  • (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
  • (n.) Custody; keeping.
  • (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
  • (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
  • (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
  • (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
  • (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
  • (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
  • (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
  • (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.
  • (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (2) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (3) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
  • (4) The force issued a warning when Jefferies was released on police bail.
  • (5) Cole said there were a number of reasons why the rate cut may not be passed on, including the need for building societies to fund the cost of the bail-out of the Bradford & Bingley and Icelandic banks, the need to maintain profits, the need to keep savings rates high and competition in the martgage market.
  • (6) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
  • (7) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
  • (8) Bail-out situations were successfully managed in 16 patients.
  • (9) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
  • (10) The Guardian view on Chinese women’s rights: free the feminists | Editorial Read more “Their release is not a victory – they are still on bail and still are suspects,” said Liang, who represents Wu.
  • (11) The recently bailed-out Belgian-French bank Dexia had a capital ratio well above regulatory limits but a leverage ratio more than 60 times its equity base.
  • (12) In the good old days the judges looked the other way when radicals were shafted, shocking bail conditions imposed and foreigners unceremoniously thrown out.
  • (13) His stringent bail conditions prohibited him from visiting the family home, and even Saltdean itself.
  • (14) Updated at 1.43pm BST 1.10pm BST Portugal's 10-year sovereign bonds ended last month at their strongest level since the country was bailed out in May 2011, a sign that investors may be a little more confident about its prospects.
  • (15) It is now a little more than five years since Alistair Darling bailed out RBS.
  • (16) Tsipras meets Merkel amid talk of compromise - live updates Read more After bailing out Europe’s banks, the European establishment handed the job of punishing Greece to the European Commission, central bank and IMF.
  • (17) The decision on whether to oppose bail will be made by the Swedish authorities, with Britain's CPS merely representing their interests at tomorrow's hearing.
  • (18) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
  • (19) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
  • (20) We are now out of the bailout power that the last government put us into so we are not at risk in the way that we were of being called on to bail out other countries of Europe .

Recognizance


Definition:

  • (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.
  • (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
  • (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (2) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (3) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
  • (4) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
  • (5) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
  • (6) All manipulations were carried out from birth (P0), when no LGN cell layers are evident, to or past the point when layers are recognizable (i.e., 1-2 weeks).
  • (7) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (8) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
  • (9) From the review of 56 published reports they conclude that triploidy syndrome has a characteristic and recognizable array of phenotype abnormalities.
  • (10) At medium concentrations (ED50 = 10 ppm) in Mucor mucedor several alterations of ultrastructure are recognizable even after short incubation periods.
  • (11) Another authentically "abnormal" DNA structure recognizable on transverse pore gradient gels is supercoiled DNA derived from the reaction of topoisomerase with a plasmid.
  • (12) In contrast, recognizable sensory neurons never exhibited adrenergic properties and did not divide.
  • (13) This unusual, distinctive synovial neoplasm presents readily recognizable pathological features (Fig.
  • (14) A corresponding effect after treatment with 5 mg Carazolol was not recognizable (p greater than 0.05).
  • (15) This study demonstrated that there are appreciable differences in mental and physical status within sibships of daughters of male carriers, as well as recognizable physical alterations and intellectual impairment in the transmitting males.
  • (16) Because detection of carcinoma in situ, either by cytology or biopsy, depends upon recognizable malignant morphologic characteristics, studies of the lesion tend to be limited to the higher grade or more anaplastic examples.
  • (17) Nine individuals with intracranial soft matter were recovered and, in five of these, material recognizable as preserved or replaced brain tissue was present.
  • (18) After angioplasty, no distinct defects were recognizable in 9 of the 12 patients, and in the remaining three, a significant decrease in defects was recognized.
  • (19) Increased sensitivity to pressor agents and activation of the coagulation cascade occur early in the course of preeclampsia, often antedating clinically recognizable disease.
  • (20) Three cardiac segments are recognizable embriologically, anatomically and functionally: atria, ventricles and great arteries.