HALIFAX LAW

Domain	Definition
Literature	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. "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). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: HALIFAX LAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-f-h-i-l-l-w-x"
	-4 letters: axilla, halala, wallah.
	-5 letters: axial, flail, walla.
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