Breaking Jail
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The act of a prise oner in effecting his escape from a place of lawful confinement, Zseape, while denoting the offense of the prisoner in unlawfully leaving the jail, may also connote the fault or negligence of the sheriff or keeper, and hence is of wider significance than “breaking jail” or “prison-breach.” ‘