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Old Bailey

noun

The central criminal court in London.

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"Old Bailey" Quotes from Famous Books

... instance of the kind in the latter part of the last century. I cannot positively answer this Query, but I will state a circumstance that occurred to myself about the year 1788. Passing in a hackney-coach up the Old Bailey to West Smithfield, I saw the unquenched embers of a fire opposite Newgate; on my alighting I asked the coachman "What was that fire in the Old Bailey, over which the wheel of your coach passed?" "Oh, sir," he replied, ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 41, Saturday, August 10, 1850 • Various

... her father's wife than was warranted by their ostensible acquaintance. The circumstances were slight enough in themselves, but these fragile links welded together made a chain which would have been good enough evidence in a criminal court, skilfully handled by an Old Bailey lawyer. Sophia Granger racked her brain to account for this suspected intimacy. When and where had these two been friends, lovers perhaps? Mr. Austin had been away from England for many years, if his own statement ...

— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

Words linked to "Old Bailey" : criminal court, capital of the United Kingdom, London, British capital, Greater London