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Malefactor
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Malefactor
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Malefactress
A female malefactor
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Justifiable homicide
incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country. (2) It may be committed
Necessity, homicide by
by virtue of such an office as obliges one, in the execution of public justice, to put a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life to the laws of his country; but to kill a man
Ganch
To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as the Turks dropped malefactors by way of punishment
Gibbet
Gibbet [fr. gibet, Fr.], a gallows; but post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed after death-a practice abolished in England by 4 &
Miserere
the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law
Ordinary of assize and sessions
Ordinary of assize and sessions, a deputy of the bishop of the diocese, anciently appointed to give malefactors their neckverses, and judge whether they read or not; also to perform divine service for them, and assist
Ordinary of newgate
Ordinary of newgate, the clergyman who is attendant upon condemned malefactors in that prison to prepare them for death; he records the behaviour of such persons. Formerly, it was
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