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According to Thomas Tayler's Law Dictionary (printed in 1856), the phrase "Wolf's Head" pertains to an outlaw, meaning a person who might be killed with impugnity, like a wolf. It is said that the phrase was originally found in the phrase "to cry wolf's head." But I have no idea where that phrase came from.
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