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COMMON SCOLD
Obs. A woman who, in consequence of her boisterous, disorderly and quarrelsome tongue, is a public nuisance to the neighborhood.
Such a woman may be indicted, and on conviction, punished. At common law, the punishment was by being placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket or cocking stool.
This punishment was abolished in Pennsylvania where the offence is now punished by fine and imprisonment.
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