Hanging In Chains - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hanging in chainsHanging in chains
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....
hang
hang hung also: hanged hang·ing vt : to suspend by the neck until dead esp. as a form of execution often hanged in the past tense vi 1 : to die by hanging often hanged in the past tense [he ed for his crimes] 2 : to be unable to reach a decision or verdict [the jury hung on 19 counts against [him] "Randall Samborn"] ...
Hang
To suspend to fasten to some elevated point without support from below often used with up or out as to hang a coat on a hook to hang up a sign to hang out a banner...
chain gang
chain gang : a group of convicts chained together esp. to work outside a prison ...
chain of causation
chain of causation :the causal connection between an original cause and its subsequent effects esp. as a basis for criminal or civil liability [intervening acts of third parties will not break the chain of causation "Brownell v. Figel, 950 F.2d 1285 (1991)"] see also nexus ...
chain of title
chain of title :the succession of conveyances of the title to a particular item of real property (as a house) NOTE: The chain of title is usually stated or shown in an abstract of title. ...
chained
bound with chains as prisoners chained together to prevent escape...
Chain pump
A pump consisting of an endless chain running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved and dipping below the water to be raised The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge...
chains
metal shackles connected by chains used to bind hands or legs as he was kept two weeks in chains...
Gunters chain
The chain ordinarily used in measuring land See Chain n 4 and Gunters scale...
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