Arser In Le Main
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Burning in the hand. The punishment inflicted on those who received the benefit of clergy. Termes de la Ley. ARSON (Lat. ardere, to burn).
At common law. The malicious burning of the house of another. Coke, 3d Inst. 66; Bish. Crim. Law, § 415; 4 Bl. Comm. 220; 2 Pick. (Mass.) 320; 10 Cush. (Mass.) 479; 7 Grat. (Va.) 619; 9 Ala. 175; 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 168; 1 Leach, C. C. (4th Ed.) 218. By statute in most, if not all, the states, the house need not be that of another. The house, or some part of it, however small, must be consumed by fire. 9 Car. P. 45; 16 Mass. 105; 110 Mass. 403; 5 Ired. (N. C.) 350; 25 Ired. (N. C.) 570; 62 N. Y. 117. At common law, the building must have been a dwelling house, but this included all buildings within the curtilage. By statute the offense has been extended to other buildings.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed the benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them in case they maile a second claim of clergy. 5 Coke, 41; 4 Bl. Comm. 367.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Burning in the band; the pleading their clergy; v. Benefit of Clergy.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
Burning in the hand. This punishment was inflicted on those who received the benefit of clergy. Terms de la Le y: