Cucking Stool
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
An ancient engine for the punishment of scolds, delinqueiit brewers and bakers. called kho iumhrel, trebucket, and coitigatary, (qq. y.) It seems to have been anciently written goging stole, and corrupted into ducking stool from the immersbn in water which was a part of the punishment.
4 Bl Com. 169.
Blmnt. CUL Lat To whom. See Per e< Citt. cm ANTE DIVORTIUM. L. Lat. (Whom before divorce.) In old English practice. A writ of entry which lay for a woman divorced from her husband, to recover her lands, (fee, from him to whom her husband had alienated them during the marriage. It was so called from the words of the writy'^KSui ipsa ante divortium inter 90S celebratum, contradicere nan jfotuit, &c., (whom she, before the divorce between them, could not gainsay.) Meg, Orig. 233.