AMENDE HONORABLE

In French Law, a species of infamous punishment, to which criminal Inst public decency or morality were condemned under the ancient system, and arc so still In some instances. Such were, sedition, forgery, sacrilege, fraudulent bankruptcy, . The simple or dry amende la ed merely of an acknowledgment by the criminal fence to open court, bar.- headed and kneeling. The amende honorable in figuris was made by an offender kneeling in his shirt, a torch in the hand, a rope round tieneck, and conducted by the executioner. I is, usually conjoined with some other punishment; sometimes capital, as in the case of parricides, < . [s. 53]