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ˈjail-deˌlivery, gaol-delivery
[See delivery.]
1. 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 2 c.
1464Nottingham Rec. II. 377 Paied to the Justices of Deliuerance for the Gaole Delyuere. 1487Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 4 §2 The next generall gaille delyvere of the same gailles in every Shire. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 243 b, [He] came before the Justices of Gaole delivery at Newegate. 1618L. Parsons in Lismore Papers (1887) Ser. ii. II. 154 My lord deputy intends..to make a priuate jaole deliuery at Corck of all the pirats lately taken. 1769Blackstone Comm. 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. 1858Beveridge Hist. India II. v. v. 380 A court of oyer and terminer and jail-delivery was undoubtedly competent to try crimes.
fig.1579–80North Plutarch, Coriolanus (ed. Nutt) II. 184 But my only demaunde consisteth, to make a gayle deliverie of all evills. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Considerations Wks. (Bohn) II. 417 It was..a general jail-delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
b. ellipt. for Sessions, Court, or Commission of jail-delivery.
1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 109 At a goal deliuery at Waterford before Iohn Wogan. 1670–1Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 371 He had given orders to the Judges to adjourn the Goale Delivery at the Old Bailey till the 10th of March.
2. Deliverance from jail or imprisonment.
1592Davies Immort. Soul (1599) 100 Were it knowne to all, What life our Soules do by this death receaue, Men would it birth, or Gaole deliuery call. a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 37 To..imploy the charity of well affected people for a General Goale Delivery, of all English Captives, in Tunis, Tripoli, [etc.]. 1780Burke Sp. Bristol previous to Election Wks. III. 378 The legislature has been obliged to make a general arbitrary jail-delivery. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. li. note, Ratcliffe..was released by the Porteous Mob when under sentence of death;..the Highlanders made a similar jail-delivery in 1745. 1826― Woodst. xxxvii, The inferior personages of the grand jail-delivery at Woodstock Lodge. |