Cucking Stool
Defined in 9 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An engine or machine for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women. Called, also, a "trebucket," "tumbrill," and "castigatory." Bakers and brewers were formerly also liable to the same punishment. Being fastened in the machine, they were immersed over head and ears in some pool. Blount; Coke, 3d Inst. 219; 4 Bl. Comm. 168.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An engine or machine for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women. Called also a trebucket, tumbrel, and castigatory. Bakers and brewers were formerly also liable to the same punishment. Being fastened in the machine, they were immersed over head and ears in some pool; Blount; Co. 3d Inst. 219; 4 Bla. Com. 168. CUI ANTE DIV0RTIUM (L. Lat. The full phrase was, Cui ipsa ante divortium contradicere non potuit, whom she before the divorce could not gainsay). A writ which anciently lay in favor of a woman who had been divorced from her husband, to recover lands and tenements which she had in feesimple, fee-tail, or for life, from him to whom her husband had aliened them during marriage, when she could not gainsay it; Fitzh. N. B. 240; 3 Bla. Com. 183, n.; Stearns, Real Act. 143; Booth, Real Act. 188. Abolished in 1833. CUI IN VITA (L. Lat. The full phrase gainsay). A writ of entry which lay for a widow against a person to whom her husband had in his lifetime aliened her lands. Fitzh. N. B. 193. It was a method of establishing the fact of death, being a trial with witnesses, but without a jury. The object of the writ was to avoid a judgment obtained against the husband by confession or default. It is obsolete in England by force of 32 Hen.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In eld English law. An ancient engine for the punishment of scolds, delinquent brewers and bakers, — called also tumbrel, trebucket, and castigatory.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An engine of correction for common scolds, which in the Saxon Janguage is said to signify the scoldingstool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should be plunged in the water for her punishment. It was also variously ealled a “trebucket,” “tumbrel,” or “eastigatory.” 38 Inst. 219; 4 Bl. Comm, 169; Brown.
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
v. Common scold.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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.