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Definition of Instrument of execution
1. Noun. An instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person.
Generic synonyms: Instrument
Terms within: Scaffold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instrument Of Execution
Literary usage of Instrument of execution
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, Henry John Hodgson (1852)
"(a) Instrument of Execution. TH gave and bequeathed the residue of his estate to
JS and his brother equally between them. JS made his will and disposed of ..."
2. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"Sir W. Scuit. Tale» »fa Gran<JS*tk*r, li. 61 The Italian instrument of execution
vu culled the *ты nun "i. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"While the distinction between the form of the instrument of execution and the
solemnities thereof, marked by Sir W. Page Wood, In West v. ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"Instrument of Execution, 926. 7. Reference to Power in Instrument of Execution,
929. 8. Compliance -with Conditions, 937- 938. b. What the Power Includes, ..."
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