Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A warning which was given to a prisoner standing mute.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A triple cr threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte et dure. 4 BL Comm. 325 ; 4 Steph. Comm. 391.