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Definition of Jailers
1. jailer [n] - See also: jailer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jailers
Literary usage of Jailers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(c) jailers.—jailers are also the servants of the sheriff, and he must be
responsible for their conduct. Their business is to keep safely all such persons ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment, and the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"Detention by keepers of prisons, jailers, etc.— The rules of law relating to
arrests made by officers, and under which they may justify, are in general ..."
3. Notes and Commentaries on Chinese Criminal Law, and Cognate Topics: With by Ernest Alabaster, Chaloner Alabaster, China (1899)
"IMPRISONMENT — PRISONS — PRISONERS — jailers identifying old offenders. It is
ordinarily on the face, but (as in the case of juveniles) may be behind ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"ers, who were crowded so closely together that they could scarcely move, implored
their jailers to release them, promising them any amount of money in ..."
5. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1874)
"AN ACT to extend and re-enact an act, entitled " An act for the benefit of line
clerks, sheriffs, late jailers, and other civil officers of this ..."
6. My Prisons: Memoirs of Silvio Pellico by Silvio Pellico (1889)
"Pellico visited by the under-jailers. — Conversation. — Piero. ... AT midnight,
two secondini (the under-jailers are so termed) had paid me a visit, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States: To which is Appended by Francis Wharton (1875)
"jailers, almshouse keepers, and other guardians. ... This rule undoubtedly applies
to jailers and almshouse keepers, and persons undertaking the voluntary ..."
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