A Bounty Hunter captures fugitives for rewards. Other terms, mainly used in the USA, include bail agent, bail enforcement agent, bail officer, fugitive recovery agent, fugitive recovery officer or bail fugitive recovery specialist.In the USA judiciary system, the case Taylor vs. Taintor in 1872, is quoted as having established that the individual into whose hands the accused is handed over due to the bail has complete rights to apprehend that individual. Almost all bounty hunters work for a bail bondsman: the bounty hunter is given a portion of the bail the suspect paid initially. If the fugitive jumps bond, the bondsman, and not the bounty hunter, has to pay the difference of the fugitive’s bond amount.The bounty hunter is the bail bondsman’s means of guaranteeing his clients arrival at the courtroom. In the U.S., bounty hunters arrest almost thirty one thousand fugitives annually, nearly 90 percent of individuals who jump bail. Bounty hunters are also known as “fugitive recovery agents” or “bail enforcement agents,” which are the desired industry and refined names, but in standard usage, they are still called “bounty hunters”.