Furca
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A fork; a gallows or gibbet. Bracton, fol. 56, FURCA ET FLAGELLUM (Lat. gallows and whip). The meanest of servile tenures, where the bondman was at the disposal of the lord for life and limb.
Cowell.
FURCA ET FOSSA (Lat. gallows and pit). A jurisdiction of punishing felons, — the men by hanging, the women by drowning. Skene de Verb. Sign.; Spelman; Cowell.