Escape
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1839)
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
CONSTRUCTIVE. Where the prisoner still remains in prison, but owing to some act of the keeper he is not in the same strict confinement in which he ought to be, it ig a constructive escape; as if a man marries his prisoner, Plowd. 17;. Bac. Abr. Escape, B 3; or if an underkeeper of the gaol be taken in execution, and delivered at the gaol house, and neither the sheriffnor any authorised person is there to receive him. 5 Mass. R. 310.