sentences:  It was enacted at the parliament assembled in Forfar in 1057 by King Malcolm Canmore that every baron should erect a gibbet (gallows) for the execution of male criminals, and sink a well or pit, for the drowning of females.The term "pit and gallows" described the jurisdiction of a baron in criminal cases; in full 'pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll, team, and infangthief'.Some historians claimed that a pit was a dungeon or prison cell, not a pit for drowning the condemned.