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TUMBREL

Legal Term: TUMBREL
Definition: punishment. A species of cart; according to Lord Coke, a dung-cart.

2. This instrument, like the pillory, was used as a means of exposure; and according to some authorities, it seems to have been synonymous with the trebucket or ducking stool. 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 797; 3 Inst. 219; 12 Serg. & Rawle, 220. Vide Com. Dig. h. t.; Burn~s Just. Pillory and Tumbrel.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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