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Chartel or cartel

Chartel or cartel [fr. Cartel, Fr.], a letter of defiance or challenge to a single combat; also, an instrument or writing between two states for settling the exchange of prisoners of war.

Civil defence

Civil defence, includes any measures, not amounting to actual combat, for affording protection to any person, property, place or thing in India or any part of the territory

Collusive proceeding and fraudulent proceeding

its having been initiated as the result of an understanding between the parties. While in collusive proceedings the combat is a mere sham, in a fraudulent suit it is real and earnest, Nagubai Ammal v. B. Shama

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Defendere se per corpus suum

Defendere se per corpus suum, to offer duel or combat as a legal trial and appeal. Abolished by 59 Geo. 3, s. 46. See BATTEL.

Vadiare duellum

Vadiare duellum (to wage combat), where two contending parties, on a challenge, give and take a pledge of fighting.

Herald

herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers genealogies, adjusts ensigns armorial, regulates funerals, and carries messages between princes, and proclaims war

Judicium Dei

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

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

Ordeal

that God would actively inter-pose to establish an earthly right. There were four sorts: (1) campfight, duellum, or combat; (2) fire ordeal; (3) ot water ordeal; (4) cold water ordeal. See Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 64;

Purgation

oath that they believed he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Jac. Law Dict.; 3 Bl. Com. 100.

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