limb of the law

limb of the law
   a policeman
   Alluding perhaps to the cliché, the long arm of the law.
    Be't priest, or laird, or limb o'law. (Nicholson, 1814)
   Rarely shortened to limb. A limbo was a prison, from the place where unbaptized infants dwell along with those who predeceased Christ and various other unfortunates:
    I have some of them in limbo patrum. (Shakespeare, Henry VlII)

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