CUCKING STOOL

-A chair on which females for certain offences were fastened and ducked in a pond. "The chair was sometimes in the form of a close-stool, which contributed to increase the degradation." -Halliwell. It was also called goging-stool. Goughstole, AngloSaxon, a close-stool. - Wedgw. "A common scold, communis rixatrix (for our Law-Latin confines it to the feminine gender), is a public nuisance to her neighborhood; for which offence she may be indicted, and if convicted, shall be sentenced to be placed on a certain engine of correction, called the trebucket, castigatory or cucking-stool." 4 Bl. Com. 168. food and water. The Cruelty to Animals CUI ANTE DIVORTIUM.--An action Act, 1876, deals with the subject of vivisecby which a divorced woman could recover her tion. In America, societies now exist in lands if they had been aliened during the covnearly all the States whose object is the prevention of cruelty to animals, the erture by her husband, "cui ante divortium ipsa contradicere non potuit." (Co. Litt. 326 a.) If she died before bringing the action, her heir !

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.