BAIL BONDS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Actus Reus
Guilty act as an element of criminal responsibility, the wrongful act or omission that
comprises the physical components of a crime.
Aquittal
The legal and formal certification of the innocence of a person who has been charged
with a crime.
Acquit
To set free, release or discharge as from an obligation, burden or accusation.
Adjudicate
To give a ruling in the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally.
Adjudication
A legal process of resolving a dispute. The formal giving of a judgment in a court
proceeding.
Agent
A person authorized to act for and under the direction of another person when dealing
with third parties. One who agrees and is authorized to act on behalf of another, a
principal, to legally bind and individual in particular business transactions with third
parties pursuant to an agency relationship.
Appeal Bond
Operates as a bail bond for an appellant in a criminal case. The conditions are that the
defendant will prosecute the appeal, and that he or she will surrender himself or herself
to serve the sentence if the verdict of the lower court is upheld.
Affidavit
A written statement of facts voluntarily made by an affiant under an oath or affirmation
administered by a person authorized to do so by law.
Appeal
, A request for a hearing, or the right to have such a hearing in law, by a superior court, of
part, or the whole, of a previously tried case from a lower court.
Agency
A consensual relationship created by contract or by law where one party, the principal,
grants authority for another party, the agent, to act on behalf of and under the control of
the principal to deal with a third party. A place where company business or individual is
transacted by an agent.
Appearance Bond
In a criminal proceeding, it guarantees that the defendant will appear in court each and
every time he or she is ordered to do so until the case is disposed of by the court.
Appellant
A person who, dissatisfied with the judgment rendered in a lawsuit decided in a lower
court or the findings from a proceeding before an administrative age, asks a superior
court to review the decision.
Appellee
A party who has won a judgment in a lawsuit or favorable findings in an administrative
proceeding, which judgment or findings the losing party, the appellant, seeks to have a
higher court reverse or set aside.
Arrest
A seizure or forcible restraint; an exercise of the power to deprive a person of his or her
liberty; the taking or keeping of a person in custody by legal authority, especially, in
response to a criminal charge.
Arrest Warrant
A document issued by a judge or magistrate that authorizing someone's arrest by the
police. An arrest warrant is issued when the sheriff, county attorney or other law
enforcement agency presents convincing evidence that a crime has occurred, and the
person to be named in the warrant is criminally responsible for its commission.
Actual Authority
The authority given explicitly, either in writing or orally, given to an agent by contract
and/or by power of attorney.
Attorney-in-Fact
Actus Reus
Guilty act as an element of criminal responsibility, the wrongful act or omission that
comprises the physical components of a crime.
Aquittal
The legal and formal certification of the innocence of a person who has been charged
with a crime.
Acquit
To set free, release or discharge as from an obligation, burden or accusation.
Adjudicate
To give a ruling in the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally.
Adjudication
A legal process of resolving a dispute. The formal giving of a judgment in a court
proceeding.
Agent
A person authorized to act for and under the direction of another person when dealing
with third parties. One who agrees and is authorized to act on behalf of another, a
principal, to legally bind and individual in particular business transactions with third
parties pursuant to an agency relationship.
Appeal Bond
Operates as a bail bond for an appellant in a criminal case. The conditions are that the
defendant will prosecute the appeal, and that he or she will surrender himself or herself
to serve the sentence if the verdict of the lower court is upheld.
Affidavit
A written statement of facts voluntarily made by an affiant under an oath or affirmation
administered by a person authorized to do so by law.
Appeal
, A request for a hearing, or the right to have such a hearing in law, by a superior court, of
part, or the whole, of a previously tried case from a lower court.
Agency
A consensual relationship created by contract or by law where one party, the principal,
grants authority for another party, the agent, to act on behalf of and under the control of
the principal to deal with a third party. A place where company business or individual is
transacted by an agent.
Appearance Bond
In a criminal proceeding, it guarantees that the defendant will appear in court each and
every time he or she is ordered to do so until the case is disposed of by the court.
Appellant
A person who, dissatisfied with the judgment rendered in a lawsuit decided in a lower
court or the findings from a proceeding before an administrative age, asks a superior
court to review the decision.
Appellee
A party who has won a judgment in a lawsuit or favorable findings in an administrative
proceeding, which judgment or findings the losing party, the appellant, seeks to have a
higher court reverse or set aside.
Arrest
A seizure or forcible restraint; an exercise of the power to deprive a person of his or her
liberty; the taking or keeping of a person in custody by legal authority, especially, in
response to a criminal charge.
Arrest Warrant
A document issued by a judge or magistrate that authorizing someone's arrest by the
police. An arrest warrant is issued when the sheriff, county attorney or other law
enforcement agency presents convincing evidence that a crime has occurred, and the
person to be named in the warrant is criminally responsible for its commission.
Actual Authority
The authority given explicitly, either in writing or orally, given to an agent by contract
and/or by power of attorney.
Attorney-in-Fact
