Assertion: psalm | /r/CapableOf | save one's neck
Facets:
value: by transferring one's case
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Thus, an illiterate person who had memorized this psalm could also claim the benefit of clergy, and Psalm 51 became known as the "neck-verse" because knowing it could save one's neck by transferring one's case from a secular court, where hanging was a likely sentence, to an ecclesiastical court, where both the methods of trial and the sentences given were more lenient, for example, a sentence of penance.