Pillory - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Pillory, a frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and moveable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put.The punishment of the pillory, abolished by 56 Geo. 3, c. 138, except for perjury, a person convicted for which was directed, by the still unrepealed 5 Eliz. c. 9, to have his ears nailed thereto, was altogether and finally abolished in 1837 by 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 23....
Pillorize
To set in or punish with the pillory to pillory...
Healfang, or Halsfang
Healfang, or Halsfang [fr. hals, Sax., neck, and fang, to seize], the pillory; also a pecuniary mulct, to commute for standing in the pillory....
Jougs
An iron collar fastened to a wall or post formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory Written also juggs See Juke...
Little ease
An old slang name for the pillory stocks etc of a prison...
Pillory
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it...
Carcan
Carcan, a pillory....
Collistrigium
Collistrigium, a pillory....
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