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Burkism
Burkism (from the name of its first perpetrator, who was executed at Edinburgh in January,1829), the practice of killing persons for … practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection. See preamble of the (English) Anatomy Act, 1833
Corpus cum causa
and record touching the cause of any man lying in execution on a judgment for debt into the King's Bench, there … a writ issuing out of Chancery to remove both the body and record touching the cause of any man lying in
Distringas
body. (3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses
Lynch-law
Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance
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