Usually means: Verse recited to avoid execution.
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  1. neck-verse: Merriam-Webster
  2. neck-verse, neck verse: Wordnik
  3. neck verse: Wiktionary
  4. Neck verse: Dictionary.com
  5. Neck-verse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Neck-verse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. neck verse: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Neck verse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (neck verse)

noun:  The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc.
noun:  (by extension) A verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.

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