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Bloody Hand

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, which, in a person caught trespassing in the forest against venison, was one of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his having killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting.

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