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 Halifax (in Nova Scotia).Hall Mark. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Halifax Law.
 
By this law, whoever commits theft in the liberty of Halifax is to be executed on the Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine.   1
       
“At Hallifax the law so sharpe doth deale.
That whoso more than thirteen pence doth steale,
They have a jyn that wondrous quick and well
Sends thieves all headless into heaven or hell.”
       
Taylor (the Water Poet): Works, ii. (1630).
 


 Halifax (in Nova Scotia).Hall Mark. 

 
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