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jail delivery

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jail delivery
n
1. forcible and illegal liberation of prisoners from jail
2. (Law) English law (formerly) a commission issued to assize judges when they come to a circuit town authorizing them to try all prisoners and release those acquitted
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Noun1.jail delivery - the use of force to liberate prisoners
freeing, liberation, release - the act of liberating someone or something
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At the time the court heard that Dawson, who is expecting her third child next month, had been paying off a drug debt in instalments but her dealers demanded the whole amount, threatening to burn down her home and to harm her and her kids unless she made the jail delivery.
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He was "Aaron Holland of the parish of the Savoy, innholder" by 6 June 1598, when he bound himself in 100 [pounds sterling] for his good appearance at the jail delivery scheduled for 7 July.
Playhouses make strange bedfellows: the case of Aaron and Martin by Ingram, William A. / Shakespeare Studies
She was paying the debt in instalments but they demanded the whole amount, threatening to burn down her home and harm her and her children unless she made the jail delivery.
Drugs blight communities; Your Say by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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