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Gaoler

Gaoler, the master or keeper of a prison; one who has

The keeper of a jail Same as Jailer

by every prisoner acquitted of felony to the sheriff or gaoler, Termes de la Ley. (Abolished by Statute 130 years ago.)

trial at assizes or sessions, to be delivered by the gaoler of the prison to the judges of assize and justices

time of execution, in the compulsory presence of the sheriff, gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon, and such other officers of the prison

disposing of infectious bodies, see the same Acts respectively. A gaoler cannot detain the dead body of a person in his

the walls of the prison, in presence of the sheriff, gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon of the prison, and such other officers

a writ that issued out of Chancery, directed to a gaoler, for delivery of a prisoner who has put in bail

Also a precept or command in writing, directed to the gaoler or keeper of some prison for the receiving and safe

Phylasist [fr. Gk., to keep], a gaoler.