Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Jail
n. A place where persons awaiting trial or those convicted of misdemeanors are confined. - Also spelled (esp. in BrE) gaol. - Also termed holding cell; lockup; jailhouse. - jail, ub. Cf. PRISON.
Jailer
A keeper, guard, or warden of a prison or jail. - Also spelled (esp. in BrE) gaoler. jailhouse. See JAIL.
close jail execution
A body execution stat ing that the person to be arrested should be confined in jail without the privilege of move ment about the jailyard.
close-jail execution
See EXECUTION.
general jail delivery
Collectively, acquittals in high numbers as a result of either lax or reckless administration of the law or defects in the law.
jail credit
Time spent by a criminal defendant in confinement awaiting trial. ( This time is usu. deducted from the defendant's final sentence (if convicted).
jail delivery
1. An escape by several prisoners from a jail. 2. Hist. A clearing procedure by which all prisoners at a given jail are tried for the offenses that they are accused of having committed. 3. Hist. The commission issued to judges of assize, directing them to clear a jail by trying - and either acquitting or condemning - all the inmates. 4. Archaic. The court charged with the trial of all ordinary criminal cases. See COMMISSION OF GAOL DELIVERY.
jail liberties
Bounds within which a jail or prison lies and throughout which certain prisoners are allowed to move freely, usu. after giving bond for the liberties. 0 The bounds are considered an extension of the prison walls. Historically, jail liberties were given in England to those imprisoned for debt. The prisoners were allowed to move freely within the city in which the prison was located. - Also spelled gaol liberties. - Also termed jail limits. "[S]tatutes were from time to time passed enlarging the gaol liberties, in order to mitigate the hardships of imprisonment: thus, the whole city of Boston was held the 'gaol liberties' of its county gaol. And so with a large part of New York City .... The prisoner, while within the limits, is considered as within the walls of the prison." -1 John Bouvier, Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1333-34 (8th ed. 1914).
jailhouse lawyer
See JAILHOUSE LAWYER.