BAIL Copy link • BAIL 1. sponsio; fidejussio, vadimonium (a recognizance or bail to appear in a court of justice): cautio (a security): satisdatio (guarantee, or security for the paformance of a stipulation): to promise bail, vadimonium promittere: he who has made the promise, qui est in vadimonio: to give bail, sponsionem or vadimonium facere; sponsione se obstringere; satisdare: to take bail, satis accipere: to forfeit bail, vadimonium deserere: to demand bail, vadem poscere: of anybody, aliquem vadari. A bail, or one who gives bail: sponsor; fidejussor; vas, vadia, m; praes. ☞ According to Döderlein, sponsor is a surety in a general sense, who guarantees any thing whatever; whereas vas and praes are sureties in a court of justice; vas, one who gives security for the appearance of one or other party in court; praes, who gives security for a claim of government (Hand-book, p. 203). To give leg bail, clam se subducere: luga se subtrahere. 2. v. give bail for anybody, sponsorem, praedem esse pro aliquo: spondere, fidem interponere pro aliquo; vadem fieri alicujus sistendi (for his appearance); praedem fieri pro aliquo or alicujus rei; obsidem alicujus rei fieri: vadem se dare alicui pro aliquo. Accept bail for anybody, vades (praedes) accipere alicujus rei: vadimonio interposito aliquem liberare (of a person who would otherwise be kept in prison).