Gaol Delivery
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gacl of the pris- Nn oners confined therein, by trying them. A cominission of general gaol delivery is one of the four commissions under which the judges in England sit at the assizes; and it empowers thein to try and deliver every prisoner who shall be in the gaol, (that is, cither in actual custody, or out on bail,) when the judges arrive at the circuit town, 4 Chit. Bl. 270, and notes; 4 Steph. Comm. 833; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 145, 146.