(thing) by jooky Thu Dec 18 2003 at 16:45:56
The offence of having killed a deer in the king's forest.
"In Scotland, in such like crimes they say, 'Taken in the fact, or with the red-handed.'"

- Thomas Blount's Law Dictionary and Glossary, 1717
I like it!

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