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Negligent Escape

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

An escape from confinement effected by the prisoner without the knowledge or connivance of the keeper of the prison, but which was made possible or practicable by the latter's negligence or by hls omission of such care and vigilance as he was legally bound to exercise in the safe-keeping of the prisoner.