in Scots law: When a prisoner is set at liberty upon some person's becoming surety for his appearance to stand trial under a penalty, he is said to be admitted to bail. See Scots Law, tit. Crimes.

Clerk of the Bails, is an officer belonging to the court of the King's Bench: he files the bail-pieces taken in that court, and attends for that purpose.

or Bale, in the sea-language. The seamen call throwing the water by hand, out of the ship or boat's-hold, bailing. They also call those hoops that bear up the tilt of a boat, its bail.

BAILLAGE, or Bailiwick. See Bailiwick.

Water Bailiage, an ancient duty paid to the city of London, for all goods brought into, or carried out of, the port.

BAILLIE, in Scots law, a judge anciently appointed by the king over such lands not erected into a regality as happened to fall to the crown by forfeiture or otherwise, now abolished. It is also the name of a magistrate in royal boroughs, and of the judge appointed by a baron over lands erected into a barony. See Scots Law, tit. Inferior judges, &c.