Fight - Law Dictionary Search Results
Centauromachy
A fight in which centaurs take part a common theme for relief sculpture as in the Parthenon metopes
Close fights
Barriers with loopholes formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemys boarders called also close quarters
Bushfighting
Fighting in the bush or from behind bushes trees or thickets
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Monomachist
One who fights in single combat a duelist
Duelist
One who fights in single combat
Pugilist
One who fights with his fists esp a professional prize fighter a boxer
Sciomachy
A fighting with a shadow a mock contest an imaginary or futile combat
Fighter
One who fights a combatant a warrior
Duel
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
Campfight
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.
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