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Hanging

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

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life Is extinct A mode of capital punishment. In Old English Law. Pending; as hanging the process.

Co. Litt. 13a, 266a.

Remaining undetermined.

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