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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...
- Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 (Justices of ****ise & gaol delivery: justices of the peace) c. 2 — repealed by Statute Law Revision and...
- criminal cases are heard before a deemster sitting in the Court of General Gaol Delivery; in a defended case[specify] the Deemster sits with a jury of seven...
- 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...
- Sessions of the Peace (1682–1969) Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (1802-1910) Federal courts located in Pennsylvania United States Court...
- Courts created by Commissions of ****ize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, or any of such Commissions The jurisdiction of the London Bankruptcy...