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Reasons against bailouts
In bailing out failing companies, they are confiscating money from productive members of the economy and giving it to failing ones... | Themes from bailouts
From the many bailouts over the course of the 20th century, certain principles and lessons have emerged that are consistent.... |
Bailout
In economics, a bailout is an act of loaning or giving capital to an entity (a company, a country, or an individual) that is in danger of failing,... | Forms of bail used
In the United States there are several forms of bail used, these vary from jurisdiction, but the common forms of bail include... |
Bail law in United States
In pre-independence America, bail law was based on English law. Some of the colonies simply guaranteed their subjects the protections of that law.... | By a court
Under current law, a defendant has an absolute right to bail if the custody time limits have expired and otherwise ordinarily a right to bail unless there is sufficient reason not to grant it.... |
By police after charge
After a person has been charged, he must ordinarily be released, on bail or without bail.... | Bail
Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail,... |
History & Modern practice
The first modern bail bonds business in the United States, the system by which a person pays a percentage of the court specified bail.. ... | Bail bondsman
A bail bond agent, or bondsman, is any person or corporation which will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a criminal defendant in court.... |
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