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	Common scold -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lastly, a common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the feminine gender) is a public nuisance to her neighbourhood.
		That stool the dread of ev'ry scolding quean.
		Judge Duncan rules the punishment of dunking a common scold obsolete and a (Punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed) cruel and unusual punishment.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Co/Common_scold.htm (923 words)

	Common scold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Punishing a common scold in the ducking stool.
		In the common law of crime in England a common scold was a species of public nuisance - a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.
		The English Common law as received by the law of the United States included the offence of being a common scold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_scold (920 words)

	common - definition by dict.die.net
		Common gender (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender.
		Common prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use.
		Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields.
	dict.die.net /common (938 words)

	Is the Common Law really based upon God's Law? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scold: A troublesome and angry woman, who, by brawling and wrangling among her neighbors, breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a nuisance to the neighborhood.
		Husband: At common law, husband and wife are one person in law, and he is that person; that is, the legal existence of the woman is suspended or at least incorporated into that of the husband, under whose protection she performs everything.
		At common law an offence of the degree of felony; and is defined by Lord Coke to be the malicious and voluntary burning of the house of another, by night or day.
	ecclesia.org /truth/common_law.html (3863 words)

	Common scold
		Formerly, in the common law of crime in England, a common scold was a species of public nuisance: a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.
		The dearth of recent prosecutions means that the question of how the European Convention on Human Rights impacts on the law of common scolds may go unanswered in the foreseeable future.
		Judge Duncan rules the punishment of dunking a common scold obsolete, cruel and unusual.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/c/co/common_scold.html (831 words)

	SCOLD - LoveToKnow Article on SCOLD
		It is usually a term applied to women, and a common scold (in Low Lat.
		communis rixatrix) was indictable in England at common law as a public nuisance, special instruments of punishment being devised in the branks or scolds bridle, and the cucking stool.
		Thp word is apparently an adaptation of the Norse skald, skald or scald, a poet, and according to the New English Dictionary the intermediate meaning through which the sense develops is libeller or lampooner.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SC/SCOLD.htm (135 words)

	Common scold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		[[Image Link]] Formerly, in the common law of crime in England, a common scold was a species of public nuisance: a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.
		The offence of being a common scold was part of the common law received by the law of the United States.
		In 1829, the American anti-clerical writer Anne Royall was convicted in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania court of being a common scold, the outcome of a campaign of harassment launched against her by local clergymen.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/common_scold (485 words)

	scold - definition by dict.die.net
		Scolding.] [Akin to D. schelden, G. schelten, OHG.
		Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold.
		One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
	dict.die.net /scold (85 words)

	law.com - Common Property Sense
		Is there some legal precedent by this name I do not know of?" By the time the bell rings, the student has been thoroughly humiliated.
		Common sense, we are taught, has no place in the fl letter world of law.
		The ability to draw freely on the creative output of humanity is one of the reasons we live in a time of such fruitful creative ferment."
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1076428402999 (1163 words)

	law.com - When Lawyers Make Mistakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here are some common mistakes lawyers make -- and the right way to handle them.
		Perhaps the most common error that attorneys make is the lowly typo.
		Sometimes a typo can alter the meaning of a document (e.g., if an attorney omits a crucial "not" in a contact), but in most cases, typos are harmless.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1107550994257 (1255 words)

	law.com - Pa. Court Abolishes Common-Law Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		regarding the continued viability of the common law marriage doctrine in Pennsylvania," Leadbetter wrote, but stopped short of outright abolition because neither party had made such a request in the underlying complaint.
		"Many of us are also concerned that certain individuals married under common law will not become aware of the change in the law and suffer as a result." (Sullivan's comments were his own and do not represent the bar association's official stance on the issue.)
		Sara Lee Goren, a family lawyer and mediator in Fort Washington who holds a master's in social work, was in favor of the court's decision but noted that the ruling alone does not resolve the issue.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1063212052330 (1077 words)

	Moondance: The Common Scold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"A common scold was a crime, in other words, that consisted essentially of speaking one's mind, and a crime that only a woman could commit.
		Why, the last time a woman was indicted as a common scold in the United States was way back in 1971.
		That was, in fact a full four years after the crime of common scold had been declared obsolete in Great Britian by the Criminal Law Act of 1967.
	www.moondance.org /1996/autumn96/short4.html (469 words)

	Common Sense
		Dad and I seem to have differenting definitions of what Common Sense is. So could Grandpa be getting frustrated because of a lack of understanding of he actual meant by "use common sense"?
		Common sense, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) ``The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.'' (b) ``The faculty of first principles.'' These two are the philosophical significations.
		In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a
	homepage.mac.com /mderosi/iblog/B145767625/C1944915348/E1516339248 (1453 words)

	Legal Definition of Common Scold
		The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Common Scold *
		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.
	www.lectlaw.com /def/c258.htm (97 words)

	Adams Electronic Archive : John Adams diary 14, includes legal notes, July 1766 , 4 April - 18 May 1767 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mary Gardiner, for a common Scold, Quarreller and Disturber of the Peace.
		Hawkins -- a common Scold is punishable by putting into the Ducking Stool.
		She says that Cushings father in Law Cotton, had an House on one Lott of Land that her Husband was Heir to in Tail, and her Husband was obliged to suffer a Common Recovery of that Lot and convey it to Cotton before Cushing would give Judgment.
	www.masshist.org /digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=D14 (1504 words)

	Define common scold : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		[1913 Webster] Though life and sense be common to men and brutes.
		common scold n : someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault [syn: scold, scolder, nag, nagger]
		This punishment has been abolished in Pennsylvania, where the offence may be punished by fine and imprisonment.
	www.indictionary.com /define/common_scold.html (1040 words)

	An Uncommon Scold
		She was charged for being a public nuisance, a common brawler and a common scold.
		On June 31, 1829, the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington County found Ann Royall guilty of being a common scold and disturber of the peace.
		She thus became the first North American legally declared a common scold.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0001/royall.html (1731 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		[1913 Webster] Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold.
		[1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Scold \Scold\, v.
		[1913 Webster] She is an irksome, brawling scold.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=scold (147 words)

	Chapter Commissional <i>to</i> Common of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; — so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
		a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell.
		a common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1194/22234/6.html (606 words)

	Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: A seamless bond between history and blogging
		Oddly, my first stop, Monica Bay's The Common Scold, sent me off on a sidetrack that took me back 100 years before landing me once again in the blogosphere, drawing an unlikely connection along the way to a third member of the Law.com blog network (to which both Monica and I belong), Eugene Volokh.
		It all had to do with her post, Bridges Not Walls, in which she summarized a speech she gave yesterday to the Legal Sales and Service Organization's RainDance conference.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.legaline.com /2005/06/seamless-bond-between-history-and.html (553 words)

	Common Scold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Synonyms: nag (n), nagger (n), scold (n), scolder (n).
		Translations for "common scold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
		-5 letters: cocoon, codons, colons, common, condom, condos, consol, mondos.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /co/common+scold.html (135 words)

	Wordlab: The Common Scold
		It was recently said, over at Snark Hunting, "There is a dinghyload of great blogs out there, but only a few have names that play well off of the content and spirit of the material." One blog that is outstanding in that regard is The Common Scold, creatively named by an inspired lawyer, and writer.
		The Common Scold is named after a cause of action that originated in Pilgrim days, when meddlesome, argumentative, opinionated women who displeased the Puritan elders were punished by a brisk dunk in the local pond.
		We merely ask that if you do decide to use any of our content, that you please send us an email ["word at wordlab dot com"] about it for use in our internal records and eplosive marketing campaigns.
	www.wordlab.com /2005/07/common-scold.cfm (350 words)

	Patent Baristas: The Baristas are Scolded
		One item of note is that the Patent Baristas received a nice mention by Monica Bay in the Common Scold.
		The Common Scold, named after the Puritan act of dunking opinionated women in the local pond, is a tough, opinionated law blog but hard to describe in a nutshell.
		If you're not already a regular reader, we recommend you check out the Common Scold (whether or not you happen to be a Yankees fan).
	www.patentbaristas.com /archives/000195.php (174 words)

	The Common Scold: KEEP OUT!
		Common Scold Monica Bay passes on some good advice (from Larry Bodine): Do Not Call List [Read More]
		i live/work in monmouth county, nj, and know the judge and knew the "common scold" and, believe me she was one!
		over a few [ too many ] drinks one night she was telling us that upon her conviction she was going to insist upon the common law punishment - dunking!
	commonscold.typepad.com /commonscold/2004/12/keep_out_.html (1631 words)

	Virginia Law Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At Monica Bay’sThe Common Scold she writes of a site that Lisa Solomon (a first class legal researcher and writer) of QuestionofLaw.net brought to her attention.
		Comment by The Common Scold — 3/10/2005 @ 11:17 pm
		Comment by The Common Scold — 3/23/2005 @ 4:43 pm
	www.jimisonlaw.com /lawblog/index.php?p=51 (884 words)

	Common scold - Definition of Common scold by Webster Dictionary
		Common scold - Definition of Common scold by Webster Dictionary
		a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public.
		disagreeable person, harridan, nag, nagger, scold, scolder, unpleasant person
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/Common%20scold (53 words)

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