FURCA
A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 12
In old English law. A fork. A gallows or gibbet. Bract. fol. 56. -Furca et flagellum. Gallows and whip. Tenw-e ad fwraam et flagellum, tenure by gallows and whip. The meanest of s1;rvile tenure~, where the bondman was at the disposal of his lord for life and limb. Cowell.-Furca. et fo a Gallows and pit, or pit and gallows. A ter':m used in ancient charters to signify a jurisdiction of punishing thieves, viz., men by hanging, women by drowning. Spelman; Cowell. [s. 536]
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