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Gaol

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A place of confinement or safe keeping, as a prison, from which, however, it seems tinguishable,— a gaol being a place of temporary confinement for minor offenses, or for debt; a permanent confinement, and a place of Gaol deliyery: the delivery or clearing of a trial of them; the gaol being considered as quittal or punishment. Gaol liberties: a through which prisoners are allowed to go at of security for their return.