Pit and Gallows
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In Scotch law. A privilege of inflicting capital punishment for theft, given by King Malcolm, by which a woman could be drowned in a pit, (fossa,) or a man hanged on a gallows, (furca.) Bell.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In old Scots law. The right to punish thieves by drowning and hanging.