Brewer's: Stafford Law

Club law. A beating. The pun is on the word staff, a stick. (Italian, Braccésca licenza.) (Florio, p. 66.) (See above.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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