gibbet law
1gibbet law — Lynch law; in particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish of Halifax, England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accused of petit larceny, and, if they found him guilty, ordered him to be decapitated …
2gibbet law — Lynch law; in particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish of Halifax, England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accused of petit larceny, and, if they found him guilty, ordered him to be decapitated …
3gibbet — index defame, denigrate, denounce (condemn), pillory, sully Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4Law French — is an archaic language originally based on Old Norman and Anglo Norman, but increasingly influenced by Parisian French and, later, English. It was used in the law courts of England, beginning with the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror. Its …
5Gibbet — See also Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine. The reconstructed gallows style gibbet at Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England. A gibbet (pronounced /ˈdʒɪbɪt/) is a gallows type structure from which the dead bodies of exec …
6Law French — El Kelham s Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language (1779) proporciona traducciones al inglés del Francés Legal a partir de actas parlamentarias y jurídicas El law french o francés legal es un lenguaje arcaico basado en el normando… …
7Halifax Gibbet — The Halifax Gibbet in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, was an early guillotine, or decapitating machine.HistoryHalifax had held the right to execute criminals since 1280. Although there is early reference to a gibbet, including a… …
8halifax law — /haebfzks 16/ A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where anciently this form of private justice was …
9halifax law — /haebfzks 16/ A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where anciently this form of private justice was …
10Caxton Gibbet — is a small knoll on Ermine Street (now the A1198) in England, from London to Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road (now the A428) from Oxford to Cambridge. There are tales dating back to the nineteenth century of murderers being hanged and… …
