 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 pages
...her neighbourhood. For which offence fhe may be indicted vi and, if convicted, {hall w be fentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, caftigatory, or nicking ftool, which in the Saxon language is faid tofignify the fcolding ftool ; though... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...her neighbourhood. For which offence fhe may be indicted » ; and, if convicted, fhall " be fentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, caftigatory, "or tucking ftool, which in the Saxon language is faid to fignify the fcolding ftocl ;... | |
 | John Evans - 1804 - 440 pages
...confines it to the feminine gender, is 3 public nuisance to her neighbourhood : for which eflence she may be indicted, and if convicted, shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of eor~ tectioB, called the tre-bucket, castigatory, or cucking stool;* though now it is frequently interpreted... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1818 - 192 pages
...scold is considered as a public nuisance to her neighborhood; and may be indicted, and if convicted is sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the cucking stool, or ducking stool, beeause the residue of the judgment is, that when she is so placed... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...fine and finding sureties for their good behaviour. 8. Lastly, a common scold may be indicted, and sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool, which in the Saxon language signifies the scolding stool ; though now it is frequently... | |
 | 1823 - 848 pages
...dishonourable. - CASTIGATORY, for SCOLDS. A woman indicted for being a common scold, if convicted, shall be placed in a certain engine of correction, called the trebucket castigatory, or cricking stool ; which, in the Saxon bnguage, signifies the scolding stool; though now it is frequently... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...confines it to the feminine gender,) is a public nusance to her neighbourhood. For which offence she may be indicted * ; and if convicted, shall " be sentenced...of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or clicking stool, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool ; though now it is... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 pages
...feminine gender,) is a public nusance to her neighbourhood. For which offence she may be indicted v ; and if convicted, shall " be sentenced to be placed...of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or clicking stool, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool ; though now it is... | |
 | Joseph Besly Gribble - 1830 - 684 pages
...sentenced to be placed in a " certain Instrument of Correction called the Tre" bucket, TumbreU, Tymborella, Castigatory, " or Cucking-stool, which in the Saxon...language " signifies the Scolding-stool, though now it is * In looking at the description of offences formerly visited with the infliction of the Pillory, we... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1834 - 518 pages
...9. Common Scolding. A woman that is a common scold may be indicted, and shall be punished by " being placed in a certain engine of correction, called the trebucket castigatory or cuckingstool."— 4 Bl. C. 169. 7. Idleness, Disorderly Conduct and Vagrancy, Sfc. By 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, (intituled an... | |
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Lastly, a common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the feminine gender,) is a public nusance to her neighbourhood. For which offence she may be indicted * ; and if convicted, shall " be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine... 
