SUSPENDATUR PER COLLUM

suspendatur per collum (s[schwa]s-pen-day-t[schwa]r p[schwa]r kahl-[ schwa]m). [Law French] Hist. Let him be hanged by the neck. • This phrase was written by a judge in the margin of the sheriff’s calendar, opposite the name of a prisoner who had been sentenced to death. — Abbr. sus. per coll. “And now the usage is, for