BAIL BONDS FL STATE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rebate - ✔✔The return of part of a fee or payment
✔✔Recognizance - ✔✔A promise
✔✔Release on recognizance - ✔✔A release from jail on the defendants promise to
appear
✔✔Remission - ✔✔Release from a debt or obligation
✔✔Revoke - ✔✔To cancel permanently
✔✔Rule - ✔✔The Florida administration code
✔✔Statute of frauds - ✔✔An English statute stating that certain types of transactions
must be in writing to be enforced
✔✔Sufficiency - ✔✔To decide whether the assets pledged are equal to the amount of
the bond
✔✔Sui juris - ✔✔Of legal age and sound mind
✔✔Supersedeas - ✔✔You shall forebear (stay)
✔✔Supersedeas bond - ✔✔Allows a defendant their freedom during the period of the
stay
✔✔Writ of supersedeas - ✔✔Writ requesting by a higher court requesting a delay in the
carrying out of some order of the lower court
✔✔Surety - ✔✔One who undertakes to pay money or to perform some act if the
principal fails to pay or perform
✔✔Surrender - ✔✔The act by which an accused is delivered to the proper authorities
✔✔Surveillance - ✔✔Oversight or supervision
✔✔Temporary bail bond agent - ✔✔A person operating under a temporary license
✔✔Thwart - ✔✔To make impossible
✔✔True bill - ✔✔Indictment
, ✔✔Undertaking - ✔✔A promise to perform some act
✔✔Underwrite - ✔✔To sign ones name assuming liability to insure the satisfaction of an
obligation
✔✔Vacate - ✔✔To render void
✔✔Waiver - ✔✔The giving up of a known right
✔✔Warrant (arrest) - ✔✔A written order commanding the sheriff or other law
enforcement officer to seize the named person.
✔✔Willful - ✔✔Intentional and voluntary
✔✔Writ - ✔✔A written judicial order
✔✔ Limited surety - ✔✔Agents of insurance companies.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally binding agreement between two or more people.
✔✔Acquit - ✔✔To set free
✔✔Adjudicate - ✔✔To decide a matter based on evidence presented by the court
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔A written statement given voluntarily under oath before a notary or
other official
✔✔Agency - ✔✔A business location at which a licensed and appointed bail bond agent
engages in any activity under the license and appointment of bail bonds
✔✔Appeal - ✔✔The act of asking a higher court to review the judgement of a lower
court and reverse the lower courts decision
✔✔Appeal bond - ✔✔Operates as a bail bond for an appellant in criminal case
✔✔Appearance bond - ✔✔In a criminal proceeding guarantees the defendant will
appear in court
✔✔Appellant - ✔✔A person who brings an appeal
✔✔Appellee - ✔✔Party against whom the appeal is taken
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rebate - ✔✔The return of part of a fee or payment
✔✔Recognizance - ✔✔A promise
✔✔Release on recognizance - ✔✔A release from jail on the defendants promise to
appear
✔✔Remission - ✔✔Release from a debt or obligation
✔✔Revoke - ✔✔To cancel permanently
✔✔Rule - ✔✔The Florida administration code
✔✔Statute of frauds - ✔✔An English statute stating that certain types of transactions
must be in writing to be enforced
✔✔Sufficiency - ✔✔To decide whether the assets pledged are equal to the amount of
the bond
✔✔Sui juris - ✔✔Of legal age and sound mind
✔✔Supersedeas - ✔✔You shall forebear (stay)
✔✔Supersedeas bond - ✔✔Allows a defendant their freedom during the period of the
stay
✔✔Writ of supersedeas - ✔✔Writ requesting by a higher court requesting a delay in the
carrying out of some order of the lower court
✔✔Surety - ✔✔One who undertakes to pay money or to perform some act if the
principal fails to pay or perform
✔✔Surrender - ✔✔The act by which an accused is delivered to the proper authorities
✔✔Surveillance - ✔✔Oversight or supervision
✔✔Temporary bail bond agent - ✔✔A person operating under a temporary license
✔✔Thwart - ✔✔To make impossible
✔✔True bill - ✔✔Indictment
, ✔✔Undertaking - ✔✔A promise to perform some act
✔✔Underwrite - ✔✔To sign ones name assuming liability to insure the satisfaction of an
obligation
✔✔Vacate - ✔✔To render void
✔✔Waiver - ✔✔The giving up of a known right
✔✔Warrant (arrest) - ✔✔A written order commanding the sheriff or other law
enforcement officer to seize the named person.
✔✔Willful - ✔✔Intentional and voluntary
✔✔Writ - ✔✔A written judicial order
✔✔ Limited surety - ✔✔Agents of insurance companies.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally binding agreement between two or more people.
✔✔Acquit - ✔✔To set free
✔✔Adjudicate - ✔✔To decide a matter based on evidence presented by the court
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔A written statement given voluntarily under oath before a notary or
other official
✔✔Agency - ✔✔A business location at which a licensed and appointed bail bond agent
engages in any activity under the license and appointment of bail bonds
✔✔Appeal - ✔✔The act of asking a higher court to review the judgement of a lower
court and reverse the lower courts decision
✔✔Appeal bond - ✔✔Operates as a bail bond for an appellant in criminal case
✔✔Appearance bond - ✔✔In a criminal proceeding guarantees the defendant will
appear in court
✔✔Appellant - ✔✔A person who brings an appeal
✔✔Appellee - ✔✔Party against whom the appeal is taken
