Glossary

Where a person doesn’t show up to court at the specified time even after the person paid bail or posted…

A loan with a balloon payment requires that a single, lump-sum payment be made at the end of the loan.

Federal laws governing the conditions and procedures under which persons claiming inability to repay their debts can seek relief.

Non-consensual, unlawful contact, such as touching, beating or wounding of another. See Assault.

Trial without a jury in which a judge decides which party prevails.

A process delivered by the court directing a law enforcement agency to bring a specified individual before the court.

To put under bond to appear in court. The term is also used when a case is shifted from a…

An illegal demand for money or property under threat of harm or exposure of undesirable acts.

A certificate of obligation, either unsecured or secured with collateral, to pay a specified amount of money within a specified…

Bond forfeiture occurs when a case has been disposed and a fine is to be, or has been paid. If…