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Combat, Trial by single. See BATTEL....
Single combat, Trial by
Single combat, Trial by. See BATTEL....
Battel
A single combat as trial by battel See Wager of battel under Wager...
Judicium Dei
Judicium Dei (judgment of God), a term applied by our ancestors to the now prohibited trials of undiscovered perpetrators of crimes; as those by arms and single combat; or by ordeals, as by fire or red-hot plough shares (see ORDEAL), which were founded on the belief that God would work a miracle rather than suffer innocence to perish....
Monomachy
Monomachy [fr. Gk., and a fight], a duel; a single combat.It was anciently allowed by law, for the trial or proof of crimes. It was even permitted in pecuniary causes, but it is now forbidden both by the civil and canon laws...
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