English Dictionary

hostageship

名詞

歴史的 不可算名詞

(law, historical) A condition of being held as surety for a pledge, as to appear before a magistrate for trial after release from gaol.

日本語の意味

（法律、歴史的用語）保証としての約束を守るため、刑務所から釈放された後に裁判に出廷することを前提として、人質のように拘束される状態

His hostageship required him to remain in the town until he could appear before the magistrate, even after his release from gaol.

出獄後であっても、保証のために人質として拘束されている状態だったので、彼は裁判所に出頭できるまで町にとどまらなければならなかった。

意味（1）

(law, historical) A condition of being held as surety for a pledge, as to appear before a magistrate for trial after release from gaol.

English, Norman and French tradition seem all to point to an ancient and extremely rigorous form of suretyship or hostageship which would have rendered the surety liable to suffer the punishment that was hanging over the head of the released prisoner.