Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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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 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.