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Jail delivery
Jail Jail, n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.] A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott. Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

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- Benjamin F. Pitezel: In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in and for the City and County of...
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- unknown. Other reforms attempted to reduce the waiting time between jail deliveries to the Old Bailey, with the aim of reducing suffering, but these efforts...
- under heavy guard and denied visitors to the cellhouse for fear of a jail delivery. Fort Wayne police reported that there was strong evidence that the...
- central jails, ****am has 22 district jails, 1 sub-jail, an open jail and a special jail. Beur Central Jail, Patna Central Jail, Buxar Central Jail, ****a...
- General Jail Delivery, satirical engraving of the time of Lovell's first imprisonment; the publication The Statesman is shown held (back to the left)...
- Fabienne has consented to be his wife. Marteau comes in with news that a jail delivery will take place tomorrow. He brings a supplementary list of victims...
- robbing a 19-year-old woman in 1985 led to him being sentenced to 11 years' jail and 28 strokes of the cane, and his second conviction for ****ually ****aulting...
- Semi-W****ly Clarion. January 20, 1871. p. 1. Retrieved November 18, 2021. "Jail Delivery". The W****ly Clarion. June 22, 1871. p. 3. Retrieved November 18, 2021...
- Benjamin F. Pitezel: In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Session of the Peace, in and for the City and County of...