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Castigatory

Defined in 9 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking-stool or cucking-stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. 12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 225.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A contrivance for punishing common scolds. See 3 Cranch C. C. 620, 27 Fed. Cas. (U. S.) 907.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the "frebucket," "tumbrel," "ducking-stool," or "cucking-stool." U. S. v. Royall, 27 Fed. Cas. 907.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Castigatorium, I. I. In old English for the punishment of scolds or unquiet women the cucking stool, trebucket and tumbrel, v.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the “trebucket,” “tumbrel,” “ducking- F stool,” or “cucking-stool.”

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Scold.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Common scold. tion laid on dwellers ■within a certain distance of a castle to maintain the garrison.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

[from Lat. castigare, to correct.] In old English law. An engine of correction for the punishn^^nt of scolds or wiquiet women; otherwise called the cucking stool, trebucket, and tumbrel, 4 Bl, Own, 168, 169. See Caching stool

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

punishments, is an engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds; it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. Vide Common Scold.