INFALISTACIO, an ancient punishment of felons, by throwing them among the rocks and sands, customarily used in port-towns. It is the opinion of some writers, that infalistas did imply some capital punishment, by exposing the malefactor upon the sand till the next tide carried him away; of which custom, it is said, there is an old tradition. However, the penalty seems to take its name from the Norman falese, or falecia, which signified not the sands, but the rocks and cliffs adjoining, or impending on the sea-shore. Commisit feloniam ob quam fuit suspensus, utlegatus, vel alio modo morti damnatus, &c. vel apud Dover infalistas, apud Southampton submersus, &c.