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Pit And Gallows Definition
(Law Lat, fossa et fwca). 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 ttie galltfws (/ttrcfc). DeHj Diet.; Stair, I-nst. 277, § 62.
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(Law Lat, fossa et fwca). 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 ttie galltfws (/ttrcfc). DeHj Diet.; Stair, I-nst. 277, § 62.
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