also 6–7 baileable, bayl(e-. [f. BAIL v.1 and sb.1 + -ABLE.]
1. Of persons: Entitled to be released on bail.
1554. Act 1–2 Mary, xiii. § 3. Any person or persons … being bayleable by the law.
1626. Bernard, Isle of Man (1627), 76. To send him to Gaole, if he be not baileable.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 561. All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offences.
2. Of an offence or process: Admitting of bail.
1649. Selden, Laws of Eng., I. xxxvi. (1739), 53. He was … admitted to Bail if the offences were bailable.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. vi. 572. A capias was granted, with a bailable clause.
1859. Ld. J. Campbell, in Ellis, Law Rep., II. 114. Directed only against bailable process.
