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Sus. Per Coll

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Sus. Per coll. When indictments were in Latin, this abbreviation for suspendatur per collum-'let him be hanged by the neck'-was the usual indorsement by the clerk of arraigns in the case of a capital sentence. At the present day indorsements are in English, and no special form of words is used.

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