Healgemote
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Halimote (q. v.). HEALS FANG (from Germ, hats, neck, 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. bad It been in use,” — for it was very early disused, no mention of it occurring in the laws of the Saxon kings. Anc. Laws & Inst of Eng. Gloss; Spelman, Gloss.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Saxon law. A dence; it is the repetition at second-hand of eourt-baron; an ecclesiastical court, what would be original evidence if given by the person who originally made tiie state-