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Hanging In Chains

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Hanging in chains. In atrocious cases it was at one time usual for the Court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder was committed, a practice abolished by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 26.

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