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.
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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.
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