jail delivery

jail delivery.

1. An escape by several prisoners from a jail.

2. Archaic. A clearing procedure by which all prisoners at a given jail are tried for the offenses that they are accused of having committed.

general jail delivery. Collectively, acquittals in high numbers as a result of either lax or reckless administration of the law or defects in the law.

3. Archaic. The commission issued to judges of assize, directing them to clear a jail by trying — and either acquitting or condemning — all the inmates.

4. Archaic. The court charged with the trial of all ordinary criminal cases. — Also written gaol delivery. See COMMISSION OF GAOL DELIVERY.


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