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Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused.In modern times a duel is a combat with weapons between two persons upon some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47.Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.'It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an ...
Campfight
A duel the decision of a case by a duel...
Duelo
A duel also the rules of dueling...
Challenge
An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind a defiance specifically a summons to fight a duel also the letter or message conveying the summons...
Duel
A combat between two persons fought with deadly weapons by agreement It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other...
Dueler
One who engages in a duel...
Dueling
The act or practice of fighting in single combat Also adj...
VerbarMonomachia
A duel single combat...
Challenges to fight
Challenges to fight, either by word or letter, or to the bearer of such challenges, are misdemeanours, punishable by fine and imprisonment. See DUEL....
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....
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