Healgemote
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A court baron. HEALSFANG (from German hals, neck, and fangen, to catch). A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. "The fine which every man would have to pay in commutation of this punishment, had it been in use," for it was very early disused, no mention of it occurring in the laws of the Saxon kings. Anc. Inst. Eng.; Spelman.