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Ornest

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Ornest, the trial by battle, which does not seem to have been used in England before the time of the Conqueror, though originating in the kingdoms of the North, where it was practised under the name of holmgang, from the custom fighting duels on a small island or Holm, Anc. Inst. Eng.

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