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executioner

executioner : one who puts another to death in fulfillment of

Juris effectus in executione consistit [Lat.], the effect of law depends upon execution

Favorabiliores sunt executiones aliis processibus quibuscunque [Lat.], executions are more preferred than all

Executione judicii, a writ directed to the judge of an Inferior

Executione facienda in withernamium, a writ that lay for taking cattle

The public executioner at Rome who executed persons of the lowest rank hence

Ketch, John, the public executioner in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Formerly

the office was held in commendam with that of the executioner; it has long been abolished. See Scott's Heart of Midlothian,

A public executioner

Deathsman, executioner, hangman.