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Trial By Combat

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Trial by combat, means a trial that is decided by personal battle between the disputants, common in Europe and England during the middle ages; especially, a trial in which the person accused fought with the accuser, the idea being that God would given victory to the person in the right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1511.

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