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Definition of Prison-breaking

1. Noun. An escape from jail. "The breakout was carefully planned"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prison-breaking

Literary usage of Prison-breaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"OP PRISON BREAKING BY THE PARTY CONFINED.1 WHERE a party effects his own escape by force, the offence is usually called prison-breaking; and such breach of ..."

2. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"How to prevent prison-breaking. — Facetious Thieves.—Robbery of a Mail Coach.—A Robber's Advice to Travellers. — The Philadelphia Prison Why liberated ..."

3. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"How to prevent prison-breaking Facetious Thieves—Robbery of a Mail Coach.—A Robber's Advice to Travellers. — The Philadelphia Prison Why liberated Prisoners ..."

4. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
""What Force Is necessary to constitute a Prison Breaking. — The next point for consideration is, what shall be said to be a breaking of prison within the ..."

5. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1865)
"was such force used as to constitute the crime of prison-breaking ; or whether it amounted only to an escape; and, the point being reserved, the judges were ..."

6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"... PRISON BREAKING, RESCUE L DEFINITION, 914. П. IK CRIMINAL CASES, 914. 1. Indictment or Information, 914. a. For the Escape Itself, 914. b. ..."

7. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"prison-breaking. A prisoner confined in a public jail, no matter for ... civil or criminal, commits prison-breaking 1 See Hume i. ..."

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