PILLORY (collistrigium, "collum stringens;" pilloria, from the French pilleur, i. e. depeculator; or pe-lori, derived from the Greek πυλῶν, janua, a "door," because one standing on the pillory puts his head as it were through a door, and εικω, video), is an engine made of wood to punish offenders, by exposing them to
public view, and rendering them infamous. There is a statute of the pillory, 51 Hen. III. And by statute it is appointed for bakers, forestallers, and those who use false weights, perjury, forgery, &c. 3. Inst. 219. Lords of leets are to have a pillory and tumbrel, or it will be the cause of forfeiture of the leet; and a village may be bound by prescription to provide a pillory, &c. 2 Hawk. P. C. 73.