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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. A prison or gaol. Strictly, a place of detention and safe keeping, and not of punishment. Career ad homines custodiendos, non ad puniendos, dari debet; a prison should be used for keeping persons, not for punishing them.

Co, Litt, 260 a.

This sentence is taken from Bracton with a slight alteration. Career ad continendos et non puniendos haberi debeat. Bract, fol.

106. 2 Mason^s B. 616.

See Prison, Gaol,