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A single combat as trial by battel See Wager of battel under Wager...
Wager of battel
Wager of battel. See BATTEL....
Battel, wager of
Battel, wager of, a form of trial formerly used in military cases, arising in the Court of chivalry and honour, in appeals of felony in criminal cases, and in the obsolete real action called a writ of action. The question at issue was decided by the result of a personal combat between the parties, or, in the case of a writ of right, between their champions. See Ashford v. Thornton, (1818) 1 B & Ald 405, which quickly led to the practice, which had long been disused, being formally abolished in 1819 by 59 Geo. 3, c. 46....
Obsolete
Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL, WAGER OF), the punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), by which labourers and others are forbidden to play cards or other specified games 'out of Christmas,' but allowed to play them in Christmas in their masters' houses and in their masters' presence; and that of 1285 in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49); and see also STATUTE LAW REVISION. But however absurd and, in common language, obsolete an En...
Batteler
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery formerly one who paid for nothing but what he called for answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge...
Battle
Fertile See Battel a...
Battlings
Battlings [fr. battellus, Lat., a small measure, fr. batus, measure of allowance], an allowance of money, as 'battles,' or 'battels,' is an allowance of provisions, Encyc. Londin....
Bill of appeal
Bill of appeal, an abolished criminal prosecution, 59 Geo. 3, c. 46. See BATTEL....
Campfight
Campfight, the trial of a cause by combat of two champions in the field. If it were a crime deserving death, the campfight was for life or death; if the offence deserved only imprisonment, the campfight was accomplished when one combatant had subdued the other, so as either to make him yield or take him a prisoner. The accused might choose another to fight in his stead, but the accuser was obliged to fight in his own person. See BATTEL, WAGER OF. The combatants were armed with similar weapons, 3 Inst. 221....
Combat, Trial by single
Combat, Trial by single. See BATTEL....
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