When a prisoner is brought into court to plead he shall not be put in fetters unless good cause be shown.
FETTERS. A sort of iron put on the legs of malefactors, or persons accused of crimes.
the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder.
 See also: Law, Civil, Witness, Arrest, Cause
  
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