jail delivery

noun

a liberation of persons from prison, especially by force.
the act of clearing a jail of prisoners by bringing them to trial, as at the assizes in England.

jail delivery

forcible and illegal liberation of prisoners from jail
English law (formerly) a commission issued to assize judges when they come to a circuit town authorizing them to try all prisoners and release those acquitted

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75

For the most of us there is no jail delivery of those inner depths, and the life above goes on to its honourable end.

If he believed in those resolutions he should at once have made a general jail delivery.

“Such a jail-delivery has never been known in New England,” is the testimony handed down.

Then his own words to the aviator on that night several days ago, came back to him: “Looks like a jail delivery.”

It was opposed vigorously by Wilson, of Massachusetts, who called it a general jail delivery for the benefit of traitors.

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