| 单词 | straw bail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraw bail straw bail n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > [noun] > worthless bail Jew bail1771 straw bail1853 1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 7 86/1 Straw bail is, I believe, a term still used by attorneys to distinguish insufficient bail from ‘justifiable’ or sufficient bail. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 455 Straw bail, worthless bail; bail given by ‘men of straw’, i.e. persons who pretend to the possession of property, but have none. < as lemmas |
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