EXCESSIVE
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
ceeding taken by the adverse party is insuf-. ficient. .Peck v. Osteen, 37 Fla. 427, 20 South.. 549; Arnold v. Slaughter, 86 W. Va. 589, 15 8. EB. 250.
céeding the proper or reasonable HNmit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga. 130, 32 S. E. .78. —Excessive bail. Bail in a sum more than will be reasonably sufficient to prevent evasion of the law by flight or concealment; bail which is per se unreasonably great and clearly disproportions ts to the offense involved, or shown to so by the special circumstances of the articular case. In re Losasso, 15 Colo. 168,
céeding the proper or reasonable HNmit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga. 130, 32 S. E. .78. —Excessive bail. Bail in a sum more than will be reasonably sufficient to prevent evasion of the law by flight or concealment; bail which is per se unreasonably great and clearly disproportions ts to the offense involved, or shown to so by the special circumstances of the articular case. In re Losasso, 15 Colo. 168,
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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