Bloody Hand - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Bloody-Hand. See BACKBERINDE....
Red hand
Having hands red with blood in the very act as if with red or bloody hands said of a person taken in the act of homicide hence fresh from the commission of crime as he was taken red hand or red handed...
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend, bearing upon the back, or about a man. Where a thief is apprehended with the things stolen in his possession, also called being taken with the mainour, as having the goods in his hand, 2 Inst. 188. It was one of the four circumstances wherein a forester might have arrested the body of a trespasser in a forest; viz., dog-draw, i.e., drawing after a deer that he has hurt; stable-stand, i.e., at his standing with a knife, gun, bow, or greyhound, ready to shoot or course; backberend, i.e., carrying away upon his back the deer which he had killed; bloody-handed (red handed), i.e., when he had shot or coursed, and was imbrued with blood, 4 Inst. 294....
Bloody hand
A hand stained with the blood of a deer which in the old forest laws of England was sufficient evidence of a mans trespass in the forest against venison...
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