Escape
| Noun | 1. | escape - the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" Synonyms: flight |
| 2. | escape - an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism" Synonyms: escapism | |
| 3. |  escape - the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" | |
| 4. |  escape - a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level | |
| 5. | escape - nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" | |
| 6. | escape - an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape" | |
| 7. | escape - a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route" | |
| 8. | escape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild | |
| Verb | 1. | escape - run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" Synonyms: get away, break loose |
| 2. | escape - fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" Synonyms: miss | |
| 3. | escape - escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" | |
| 4. | escape - be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" Synonyms: elude | |
| 5. | escape - issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom" | |
| 6. | escape - remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer" Synonyms: get away | |
| 7. | escape - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" Synonyms: fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail, run, bunk, break away |
ESCAPE. An escape is tho deliverance of a person who is lawfully imprisoned,
out of prison, before such a person is entitled to such deliverance by law.
5 Mass. 310.
2. It will be proper to consider, first, what is a lawful imprisonment;
and, secondly, the different kinds of escapes.
3. When a man is imprisoned in a proper place under the process of a
court having jurisdiction in the case, he is lawfully imprisoned,
notwithstanding the proceedings may be irregular; but if the court has not
jurisdiction the imprisonment is unlawful, whether the process be regular or
otherwise. Bac. Ab. Escape. in civil cases, A 1; 13 John. 378; 5 John. 89; 1
Cowen, 309 8 Cowen, 192; 1 Root, R. 288.
4. Escapes are divided into voluntary and negligent; actual or
constructive; civil and criminal and escapes on mesne process and execution.
5.-1. A voluntary escape is the giving to a prisoner, voluntarily,
any liberty not authorized by law. 5 Mass. 310; 2 Chipm. 11. Letting a
prisoner confined under final process, out of prison for any, even the
shortest time, is an escape, although he afterwards return; 2 Bl. Rep. 1048;
1 Roll. Ab. 806; and this may be, (as in the case of imprisonment under a
ca. sa.) although an officer may accompany him. 3 Co. 44 a Plowd. 37; Hob.
202; 1 Bos. & Pull. 24 2 Bl. Rep. 1048.
6. The effect of a voluntary escape in a civil case, when the prisoner
is confined under final process, is to discharge the debtor, so that he
cannot be retaken by the sheriff; but he may be again arrested if he was
confined only on mesne process. 2 T. R. 172; 2 Barn. & A. 56. And the
plaintiff may retake the prisoner in either case. In a criminal case, on the
contrary, the officer not only has a right to recapture his prisoner, but it
is his duty to do so. 6 Hill, 344; Bac. Ab. Escape in civil cases, C.
7.-2. A negligent escape takes place when the prisoner goes at large,
unlawfully, either because the building or prison in which he is confined is
too weak to hold him, or because the keeper by carelessness lets him go out
of prison.
8. The consequences of a negligent escape are not so favorable to the
prisoner confined under final process, as they are when the escape is
voluntary, because in this case, the prisoner is to blame. He may therefore
be retaken.
9.-3. The escape is actual, when the prisoner in fact gets out of
prison and unlawfully regains his liberty.
10.-4. A constructive escape takes place when the prisoner obtains
more liberty than the law allows, although he still remains in confinement
The following cases are examples of such escapes: When a man marries his
prisoner. Plowd. 17; Bac. Ab. Escape, B 3. If an underkeeper be taken in
execution, and delivered at the prison, and neither the sheriff nor any
authorized person be there to receive him. 5 Mass. 310. And when the keeper
of a prison made one of the prisoners confined for a debt a turnkey, and
trusted him with the keys, it was held that this was a constructive escape.
2 Mason, 486.
11. Escapes in civil cases are, when the prisoner is charged in
execution or on mesne process for a debt or duty, and not for a criminal
offence, and he unlawfully gains his liberty. In this case, we have seen,
the prisoner may be retaken, if the escape have not been voluntary; and that
he may be retaken by the plaintiff when the escape has taken place without
his fault, whether the defendant be confined in execution or not; and that
the sheriff may retake the prisoner, who has been liberated by him, when he
was not confined on final process.
12. Escapes in criminal cases take place when a person lawfully in
prison, charged with a crime or under sentence, regains his liberty
unlawfully. The prisoner being to blame for not submitting to the law, and
in effecting his escape, may be retaken whether the escape was voluntary or
not. And he may be indicted, fined and imprisoned for so escaping. See
Prison.
13. Escape on mesne process is where the prisoner is not confined on
final process, but on some other process issued in the course of the
proceedings, and unlawfully obtains his liberty, such escape does not make
the officer liable, provided that on the return day of the writ, the
prisoner is forthcoming.
14. Escape on final process is when the prisoner obtains his liberty
unlawfully while lawfully confined, and under an execution or other final
decree. The officer is then, in general, liable to the plaintiff for the
amount of the debt.
ESCAPE, WARRANT. A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large. Jacob's L. D. h.t.
| 1. | (language) | ESCAPE - An early system on the IBM 650. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. | |
| 2. | (character) | escape - (ESC) ASCII character 27. When sent by the user, escape is often used to abort execution or data entry. When sent by the computer it often starts an escape sequence. |