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Posting of a bond, whether by a criminal defendant, civil plaintiff, or as a condition of some license is never presumed to eradicate malfeasance. It is a deter
by charonn0 14y ago
Posting of a bond, whether by a criminal defendant, civil plaintiff, or as a condition of some license is never presumed to eradicate malfeasance. It is a deterrent only: if the bond is sufficiently large then the person or business so bonded will be strongly hesitant to risk losing it. Hesitant, but not otherwise restrained.
- thinkcomp 14y agoBut if you make the bond absurdly large and never enforce the law, then no one bothers getting it because A) they can't resonably and B) there isn't any point. Then add in twenty other ridiculous conditions and the whole thing becomes a total joke. Which is why HN companies don't bother complying at all, if they even know it exists.