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Common scold

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

One who, by the practice of frequent scolding, disturbs the neighborhood.

Bish. Crim. Law, § 147.

A quarrelsome, brawling, vituperative person.

U. S. v. Royall, 27 Fed. Cas. 907; Com. v. Mohn. 52 Pa. 243, 91 Am. Dec. 153; Baker v. State, 53 N. J. Law, 45, 20 AU. 858.