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Home Dictionary Name: single combat trial bySingle combat, Trial by
Single combat, Trial by. See BATTEL....
Combat, Trial by single
Combat, Trial by single. See BATTEL....
Trial by combat
Trial by combat, means a trial that is decided by personal battle between the disputants, common in Europe and England during the middle ages; especially, a trial in which the person accused fought with the accuser, the idea being that God would given victory to the person in the right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1511....
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...
Bar, trial at
Bar, trial at, the trial of a cause or prisoner before the Court itself instead of at Nisi Prius. It is confined to cases of great importance, and it is entirely discretionary with the court to grant it, unless the Crown be interested (see as to this, Dixon v. Farrar, Sec. of Board of Trade, (1886) 18 QBD 43), when the Attorney-General may demand it as of right. The procedure for obtaining it is regulated by Rules 150-155 of the Crown Office Rules of 1906.A celebrated trial at bar--of one Arthur Orton for perjury, in swearing that he was Sir Roger Tichborne--took place in 1873 before Cockburn, L.C. J., and Lush and Mellor, JJ. Others since that date are the action by the Attorney-General against Mr. Bradlaugh for penalties under the Parliament Oaths Act, A.G. v. Bradlaugh, (1885) 14 QBD 667; the trial of Dr. Jameson and many others, Reg. v. Jameson, 1896 (2) QB 425, for making an incursion into the Transvaal in contravention of the (English) Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (see that title...
Champion
One who engages in any contest especially one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of anothers honor or rights or one who now acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause a defender an advocate a hero...
Dueling
The act or practice of fighting in single combat Also adj...
Duelist
One who fights in single combat...
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