Attention Bail Bond Agents!

United States Supreme Court

Tailor v. Taintor, 83 (U.S.) 16 Wall at 366 (1872)

"When bail is given, the principal (defendant) is regarded as delivered to the custody of his sureties (bondsman).

Their dominion is a continuance of the original imprisonment. Whenever they choose to do so, they may seize him

and deliver him up in their discharge (exoneration), and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until

it can be done. They may exercise their rights in person or by agent. They may pursue him into another state; may

arrest him on the Sabbath; and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose. This seizure is not

made by virtue of new process. None is needed. It is likened to re-arrest, by the sheriff, of an escaping prisoner"

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