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✔✔Judgement - ✔✔The decision of the court
✔✔Jump bail - ✔✔Leaving the jurisdiction or any other act by a defendant to avoid a
court appearance after bail has been posted
✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔The power to hear and determine a case
✔✔Jury - ✔✔A group of people called together to decide an issue at law
✔✔Liability - ✔✔An obligation that must be performed or otherwise fulfilled
✔✔Limited surety agent - ✔✔An individual who is appointed by an insurer by power of
attorney to execute or counter sign bail bonds in connection with judicial proceedings
and who therefore receives or is promised money or other things of value
✔✔Magistrate - ✔✔A public official vested with some part of the legislative, executive,or
judicial power
✔✔Managing general agent - ✔✔An entity appointed or employed by an insurer to
supervise or manage the bail bond business written in this state by bail bond agents
appointed by the insurer
✔✔Misappropriate - ✔✔To use funds or property of another for a purpose other than
that which was intended or legally required
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔A crime punishable by fine or a term of one year or less in a
facility other than state prison.
✔✔Misrepresentation - ✔✔False statements made during the period of inducement to
sign a contract
✔✔Misstatement - ✔✔A lie
✔✔Material - ✔✔A lie told by the defendant to persuade a surety to write a bond
✔✔Moral turpitude - ✔✔Dishonesty of a high degree
✔✔Motion - ✔✔Application to a court requesting an order or ruling
✔✔Ne exeat - ✔✔No exit
, ✔✔Ne exeat bond - ✔✔Allows the defendant to go at large until the case is finally
settled
✔✔Writ of Ne exeat - ✔✔Order from a judge in a civil case ordering one of the parties
jailed to prevent then from leaving the state
✔✔Nolle prosequi - ✔✔Unwilling to prosecute
✔✔No information - ✔✔Formal declaration by a prosecuting attorney that an information
will not be filed in a case
✔✔Nolo contendre - ✔✔I do not wish to contend
✔✔Obligee - ✔✔The party to whom an obligation is due
✔✔Obligor - ✔✔The party who owes the debt
✔✔Pecuniary - ✔✔Involving money
✔✔Penal sum - ✔✔Penalty
✔✔Perjury - ✔✔A false statement made under oath in a judicial proceeding
✔✔Petition jury - ✔✔Ordinary trial jury
✔✔Power of attorney - ✔✔A written instrument authorizing an agent to perform certain
acts on behalf of the principal
✔✔Premium - ✔✔The sum paid to the bondsman for providing surety bond
✔✔Presentence investigation - ✔✔Investigation conducted by the probation department
to assist the court in sentencing a criminal offender
✔✔Pretrial intervention - ✔✔A remedial program where by a defendant is removed from
the regular court prices and placed into a voluntary program of probation
✔✔Primary bail bond agent - ✔✔A licensed bail bond agent who is responsible for the
operation and management of a bail bond agency location
✔✔Principal - ✔✔The party giving power of attorney to another
✔✔Probable cause - ✔✔Facts sufficient to cause a person of reasonable caution to
belie e a crime has been committed