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Specialty Expressions: HALIFAX LAW

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Halifax LawLiterature1: They have a jyn that wondrous quick and well
2: "At Hallifax the law so sharpe doth deale,
3: By this law, whoever commits theft in the liberty of Halifax is to be executed on the Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine.
4: Sends thieves all headless into heaven or hell."
5: Taylor (the Water Poet): Works, ii. (1630).
6: That whoso more than thirteen pence doth steale,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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