Gaoler

The keeper of a gaol or prison; one who has the legal custody of the place where prisoners are kept. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this purpose he may use all necessary force. 1 Hale, P. C. 601. But any oppression of a prisoner under a pretended necessity will be punished; for the prisoner, whether he be a debtor or a criminal, is entitled to the protection of the laws from oppression.

The keeper of a gaol or prison; one who, has the legal custody of the place where prisoners are kept It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this purpose he may use all necessary force; 1 Hale, PI. Or. 601; and a prisoner who assaults him in endeavoring to break gaol may be lawfully killed by him; 1 Russ. Or. Sharsw. ed. 860, 896. But any oppression of a prisoner, under a pretended necessity, will be punished; for the prisoner, whether he be a debtor or a criminal, is entitled to the protection of the laws from oppression. He was indictable if by oppression he Induced a prisoner to accuse another; 4 Bla. Com. 128; but this statute was repealed by 4 Geo. IV. c. 64, s. 1 id. note. He is also indictable for suffering an escape (g. v.), or for extortion; 1 Russ. Or. Sharsw. ed. 208. When a county court delivers persons convicted by it of murder to a gaoler for safekeeping till brought back for execution, the governor has no authority to countermand a subsequent order of that court requiring the gaoler to deliver them up, nor will the fact that a writ of error and supersedeas had been awarded each of the prisoners by the supreme court justify the gaoler in refusing fo deliver up the prisoners on the order of the court that committed them; but the fact that a court having Jurisdiction has granted the prisoners a writ of ‘habeas corpus will Justify such a refusal; Cardoza v. Epps (Va.) 23 S. E. 296.

The master or keeper of a prison; one who has the custody of a place where prisoners are confined.

Defined under Gaol in Black's Law Dictionary.

The keeper of a gaol, — the sheriff of the sidered, the actual keeper being, in contemplation sheriff's deputy.

The master or keeper of a prison; one who has the custody of a place where prisoners are confined.

The keeper of a gaol. The sheriff is considered as the keeper of the gaol of his county; the actual keeper being, in contemplation of law, only the sheriff's deputy. 3 Steph. Com. 249. 1 Bl. Com. 346. 1 N. Y. Rev. St. [380, § 76,] 372, § 86. 2 Id. [764] 632.

the keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the place where prisoners are kept. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this purpose he may use all necessary force, 1 Hale, P. C. 601; but any oppression of a prisoner under a pretended necessity will be punished, for the prisoner, whether he be a debtor or a criminal, is entitled to the protection of the laws from oppression.