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 infaliflatus 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 salese, or salefa, which signified not the sands, but the rocks and cliffs adjoining, or impending on the sea-shore. Commisi feloniam ob quam fuit suspensus, utlegatus, vel alio modo mori damnatus, &c. vel apud Dover infaliflatus, apud Southampton submersus, &c.