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Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier.

ining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

l off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. [Obs.]

answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.

ng of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, wh…