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| | |  Common scold - Historical prosecutions: Encyclopedia II - Common scold - The offence and its punishmentIn the Commentaries on the Laws of England, Blackstone says of this offence:
Lastly, a common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the feminine gender) is a public nuisance to her neighbourhood. For which offence she may be indicted; and, if convicted, shall be 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 corrupted into ducking stool, because t ...
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