Gallows
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A structure on which to hang criminals condemned to death. In the thirteenth century there was in certain cases power given to him who caught a thief with stolen goods upoh him, to hang him, and it is said that “the manorial gallows was a' common object of tl^e country.”
1 Poll. & Maitl. 664.
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