Castigatory
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were plunged or soused overhead in the water.
In Domesday Book it is called Cathedra Stercoralis, and by the Saxons scealfing stole. It was also anciently inflicted on brewers and bakers transgressing the laws, who were ducked in stercore (in stinking water), Jac. LawDict.
In Domesday Book it is called Cathedra Stercoralis, and by the Saxons scealfing stole. It was also anciently inflicted on brewers and bakers transgressing the laws, who were ducked in stercore (in stinking water), Jac. LawDict.
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