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Definition of Gaol delivery

Gaol delivery
Gaol Gaol, n. [See Jail.] A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.] Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.

Meaning of Gaol delivery from wikipedia

- cases. The commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners not yet tried by judges held in the gaols. Historically, all justices...
- serious crimes in the Isle of Man are tried in the Court of General Gaol Delivery. The Second Deemster normally sits as the judge. This court is not formally...
- creation of a Superior Court of Judicature, Court of ****ize, and General Gaol Delivery, consisting of one chief justice and four ****ociates, all serving one...
- lord paramount, acting under a commission of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, as well as under the ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the...
- containing the form and method of the proceedings at the ****izes and General Gaol-delivery as also on the crown and nisi prius side (2nd ed.). S. Roycroft for...
- busones we can see the persons whose names appear in the commissions of gaol delivery, oyer, and terminer, and who were in later days, as justices of the...
- 98) (Justices of ****ise & gaol delivery: justices of the peace) c. 2 The Authority of justices of ****ise, Gaol-delivery, and of the Peace. — repealed...
- the King's Bench were appointed by letters patent to commissions of gaol delivery and oyer and terminer which sat at ****izes; these generally took place...
- dependencies was Anthony Teare, who was convicted at the Manx Court of General Gaol Delivery in Douglas for contract murder in 1992; he was subsequently retried...
- Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 109) (Gaol delivery) c. 10 Two learned men in the law shall be in commission of gaol delivery. — repealed by Repeal of Acts Concerning...