Rescue

The act of forcibly and inten-tionaliy delivering a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, and setting him at liberty.

4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga. § 4478; Robinson v. State, 82 Ga. 535, 9 S. E. 528.

The unlawfully or forcibly taking back goods which have bcen token under a distress for rent, damage feasant, etc.

Hamlin v. Mack, 33 Mich. 108.

In admiralty and maritime law. The deliverance of property taken as prize, out of the hands of the captors, either when the captured party retake it by their own efforts, or when, pending the pursuit or struggle, the party about to be overpowered receive reinforcements, and so escape capture.