gaol : Idioms & Phrases
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.
Webster 1913
Gaol delivery
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(Law) SeeJail delivery , underJail .