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Term of art referring to a "guilty mind," and a required element for some crimes.

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What was the mens rea of being a common scold?

The obsolete offence of being a common scold is somewhat quaintly described by Blackstone (IV:13.5.8, p. 169) as Lastly, a common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the femin …
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