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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

To drag (on a hurdle) to the place of execution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, bivt the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A part of the ancient punishment of traitors was to be thus drawn.

4 Bla. Com. 92, 377.