Cippi
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The stocks. Reg. Orig. 96b. Bracton and Fleta used in cippo. Bracton fol. 145b; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 42, §§ 1, 2.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I l, Cipps, cips, sepps, seps, I fr. stocks; an instrument for punishing
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An old English law term for the stocks, an instrument in which the wrists or ankles of petty offenders were confined.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/., Cipps, ceps,/?-. The stocks.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. [L. Fr. cipps, ceps.] In old English law. The stocks; an instrument for punishing offenders. Quare vi et armis clausum et cippos ipsitts abbatis apud BertorC, in quibus cippis, Henricus le Smyth nativus suus pro quibusdam inobedieniiis suis per ipsum abbatem positus fait, f regit, &c. Wherefore, with force and arms he broke the close and stocks of the said abbot at Berton, in which stocks Henry the Smyth his Aillein had been put by the said abbot for certain disobediences, &c. Reg. Grig. 96 b. Bracton uses the singular, in cippo. BracL fol. 145 b. See Stocks,