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Sells you freedom on credit, then hires someone to hunt you if you don't pay it back.
means A person who puts up money as surety to get someone released from jail before trial, charging a nonrefundable fee for the service.
from From 'bond' (a binding written pledge, itself from the same root as 'bind') plus 'man.' The word originally applied broadly to anyone under obligation through a bond — including, in older English, a feudal serf bound to a lord — before narrowing in American usage to the commercial bail bondsman, a trade that grew up around the 19th-century bail system.
- the cut
- typically charges 10 percent of total bail, nonrefundable
- the leverage
- can legally arrest you without a warrant
- the origin
- profession is basically extinct outside the US and Philippines
- the backup
- employs bounty hunters when clients skip court