If both the person posting bail and the defendant are in court, cash bail can be posted in the courthouse, and the defendant can be released before being transferred to jail.
reference point - an indicator that orients you generally; it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved. point of reference, reference. bench mark, benchmark - a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point. landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land.
For other uses, see Reference (disambiguation). Reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to refer to the second object. The second object, the one to which the first object refers, is called the referent of the first object.