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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gaol delivery
 越獄,劫獄

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gaol n.  A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.]
 Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.]
 Gaol delivery. Law See Jail delivery, under Jail.
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