Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality

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Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever means of avoiding legal punishment. · view the constellation · filed as J1183

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Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared

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Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner No second punishment for same offense Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure."Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous

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