单词 | without red hand |
释义 | > as lemmaswithout red hand 1. Scots Law. with (the) red hand: in the act of committing a crime; bearing clear evidence of having just committed a crime. Also †without red hand: without clear evidence of guilt. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [phrase] > with clear evidence of guilt with (the) red handc1430 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [phrase] > committing a crime > in the act of with (the) red handc1430 with (later in) the mainour (usually manner)1530 in flagrant delict1819 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [adverb] > without clear evidence of guilt without red hand1597 c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 375/1 Si latro comprehensus fuerit cum fang hoc est hande habande aut homicidia cum redhand. c1500 Barounis Lawis f. 15v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Red(e)-hand Gif he be taken with a reid hand freschly or with mannis slauchtir or with reid hand in thift. 1577–8 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 1st Ser. II. 666 The said Alexander Winsister wes not takin with reidhand. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Schireff Gif he beis apprehended with reid hand Justice sall be done within that Sunne. And gif he be taken and apprehended without read hand, Hee salbe put in prison. 1609 J. Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. in Regiam Majestatem c. 39 §2 Gif he is takin with reid or hait hand of slauchter. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. xix. 195 This manifest Theft, is called Theft with red hand. 1729 C. Areskine in Trial J. Carnegie 14 If the Slayer is taken with red Hand, the Law shall be done upon him within that Sun; which cannot be understood of a Crime not capital. 1758 H. H. Kames Hist. Law-tracts I. vii. 331 A man taken in the act of murder, or with red hand, as expressed in our law, must have justice done upon him by the sheriff within three suns. 1878 H. C. Lea Superstit. & Force (ed. 3) 23 (note) A murderer was allowed to rebut with his single oath all testimony as to his guilt, unless he chanced to be caught with the red hand. 1910 A. Duff Hist. Old Test. Crit. iii. 51 The barbaric horder might take the fancy..to slay with red hand every man, woman, and child that might be in the way. 1927 E. Weekley More Words Anc. & Mod. (1971) 129 Red-handed has a fine archaic 12th-century ring, but was coined by Scott himself from the old legal phrase ‘with red hand’. < as lemmas |
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