Defn: The action of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.
2. (Law)
Defn: A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.
Note: In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property. Story.
BAILOR
Bail`or", n. (Law)
Defn: One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
BAILPIECE
Bail"piece`, n. (Law)
Defn: A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
BAILY'S BEADS
Bai"ly's beads. (Astron.)
Defn: A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 — 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.