Gallows - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Gallows [it is used by some in the singular, but more generally in the plural], a beam laid over either one or two posts, from which male factors are hanged. See EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS.A wooden frame consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam from which condemned criminals are hanged by rope, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 687....
Gallow
To fright or terrify See Gally v t...
Gallows
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top also a like frame for suspending anything...
gallowstree
same as gallows...
Galwes
Gallows...
Hangdog
A base degraded person a sneak a gallows bird...
Patibulary
Of or pertaining to the gallows or to execution...
Patibulated
Hanged on a gallows...
Scapegallows
One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes...
Coke, Sir Edward
Coke, Sir Edward, often, but incorrectly, styled Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself ' Chief Justice of England,''was deprived of office and committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I. referred the whole matter to Bacon, the Attorney-General, and others learned in the law. Acting upon the recommendations of this committee of counsel, James I. decided the matter in favour of Chancery. It should be menti...
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