10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGER OF BATTLE»
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1
The Verdict
of Battle: The Law
of Victory and the Making
of ...
Whitman explains why ritualized violence was more effective in ending carnage, and why humanitarian laws that view war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts.
WAGER OF BATTLE. Of the absurdity of the ancient practice of determining
doubtful accusations by single combat, we have abundance of instances on
record, but we meet with none more distressing than the following, which
occurred ...
3
Superstition and Force. Essays on the
Wager of Law, the ...
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4
Jury Nullification: The Evolution
of a Doctrine
That appearance may be deceiving, however: Frederic William Maitland, one of
England's most renowned historians, described the wager of battle as “an appeal
to the God of Battles.”15 Although the wager of battle or judicial duel report- edly
...
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The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time
TRIAL BY BATTLE Anon-non BILL] The Attorney General rose to submit the
motion of which he had some days since given notice to that House. The law as it
then stood with regard to the Wager of Battle had, as he believed, never before
been ...
Great Britain. Parliament,
1819
6
The Parliamentary Debates (official Report[s]) ...
The petitioners stated, that the citizens of London could not be compelled to
accept of wager of battle. This was true, the citizens of London and of Dublin
Were so far exempt from the operation of the law; but he thought it impossible to
separate ...
Great Britain. Parliament,
1819
7
The new tablet
of memory; or, Recorder
of remarkable events, ...
Mr. Reader, for the Defendant, then said, my Lord, I submit the Appellant must be
called; and that he must accept the Wager of Battle, or consent that the Defendant
be permitted to go free without day. THORNTON, ABRAHAM, (continued.) ...
8
Penny Cyclopaedia
of the Society for the Diffusion
of Useful ...
The party accused was also disqualified from insisting on his wager of battle,
where he had been detected in the very act of committing the offence, or under
circumstances which precluded all question of his guilt. Indeed (if early
authorities are ...
9
Parliamentary Debates: Official Report : ... Session
of the ...
The petitioners stated, that the citizens of London could not be compelled to
accept of wager of battle. This was true, the citizens of London and of Dublin
were so far exempt from the operation of the law ; hut he thought it impossible to
separate ...
10
Encyclopædia Americana: a popular dictionary
of arts, ...
Under the Norman dominion, this ordeal was supplanted by the wager of battle.
The wager of battle (vadiatio duclli) was used even in civil cases, and, according
to the most ancient custom, it depended on the accused, if the accusor had ...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford,
1840
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That Time A UK Court Denied A Man's Wish For Trial By Combat …
According to the wikipedia page on trial by combat, it's been retired for a while: “Wager of battle, as the trial by combat was called in English, appears to have ... «The Mary Sue, Dec 13»