jail-deliverygaol-deliveryn.
/ˈdʒeɪldᵻˌlɪv(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdʒeɪldəˌlɪv(ə)ri/ 1. figurative.1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 257 But my only demaunde consisteth, to make a gayle deliuerie of all euills.1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 224 It was..a general jail-delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
a. The clearing a jail of prisoners by bringing them to trial, esp. at the assizes; hence, the judicial process by which every prisoner awaiting trial in a jail is either condemned or acquitted at the assizes. See deliver v.1 8.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > clearing of jail by bringing to trial
deliverancec1410
delivery1464
jail-delivery1464
1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 377 Paied to the Justices of Deliuerance for the Gaole Delyuere.
1487 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 4 §2 The next generall gaille delyvere of the same gailles in every Shire.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxliijv [He] came before the Justices of Gaole deliuery at Newegate.
1618 L. Parsons in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. II. 154 My lord deputy intends..to make a priuate jaole deliuery at Corck of all the pirats lately taken.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 267 They have..a commission of general gaol delivery; which empowers them to try and deliver every prisoner, who shall be in the gaol when the judges arrive at the circuit town, whenever indicted, or for whatever crime committed.
1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. v. 380 A court of oyer and terminer and jail-delivery was undoubtedly competent to try crimes.
b. elliptical for Sessions, Court, or Commission of jail-delivery.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > courts with other specific jurisdictions
marshalseaa1400
oyer and terminer1469
High Commission1581
jail-delivery1612
Court of (the) Verge1647
palace court1685
Court of Claims1691
Industrial Court1852
brewster sessions1883
traffic court1896
family court1917
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 108 At a Gaol-deliuery at waterford, before Iohn wogan.
1671 A. Marvell Let. 16 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 132 He had giuen order to the Judges to adjourn the Gaole delivery at the old baily till the 10th of March.
2. Deliverance from jail or imprisonment.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > deliverance or release from
jail-delivery1599
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 100 Were it knowne to all, What life our Soules do by this death receaue, Men would it Birth, or Gaole deliuerie call.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 37 To..imploy the charity of well affected people for a General Goale Delivery, of all English Captives, in Tunis, Tripoli, [etc.].
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 23 The legislature has been obliged to make a general arbitrary jail-delivery.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv. (note) in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 321 Ratcliffe..was released by the Porteous-mob when under sentence of death;..the Highlanders made a similar jail delivery in 1745.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xiii. 345 The inferior personages of the grand gaol-delivery at Woodstock Lodge.
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