Legal Development in Colonial Massachusetts 1630 1686
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153; Laws, 1672- 86, p. 54- ^ Mass. Col. Rec, vol. iv, pt. ii, p. 143; Laws, 1660-72, p. 231; Laws, 1672-86, p. ss. ''Mass. Col. Rec, vol. iv, p. ii, pp. 393-4; Laws, 1660-72, p. 257; Laws, 1672-86, p. 55. 'Laws, 1672-86, p. 208. lOO LEGAL DEVELOPMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS [256 of husbands or wives was forbidden in 1647/ ^^^ mar- riage with a dead wife's sister in 1670.^ Common barratry, ?'. e. fomenting controversies, was made punishable by Liberty 34. ' Scolds were not tol- erated : it was declare...d in 1672 that they should be gagged or dipped three times in the ducking stool.'' Profane swearing was made punishable by a provision in the statutes of 1660 and 1672,= and it was added in 1675 that a person who heard profane oaths should be required to report the same under penalty of being pun- ished as severely as the principal.* As to religion, the statutes against heresy are too numerous to mention. A law of 1646 made certain un- orthodox teachings finable,^ and in the same year Chris- tians who interrupted the minister were made subject to censure and humiliating punishment.* The long list of statutes against the Anabaptists and Quakers need not be catalogued here.
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