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Variants or trial by combat. : a trial of a dispute formerly determined by the outcome of a personal battle or combat between the parties or in an issue joined upon a writ of right between their champions.
In Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister asks for a trial by combat as a desperate measure to defend himself against the murder charges he faces. He is aware that the legal system in King's Landing is heavily biased against him and that he lacks a fair chance in a standard trial.
The ancient practice of trial by combat was abandoned hundreds of years ago and has never been employed in America. Yet this has not stopped litigants and others from demanding trial by combat—a tactic which, while infrequent, implicates deeper questions of the history of American law.
Of course they can. This is Texas. Mutual combat, or consent to do battle, is an affirmative defense in assault and aggravated assault cases in the Lone Star State. Washington is the only other state in the union that allows this.
Courts are governed by a series of procedural rules based in statutes, court rules, and precedent, and none of these rules give litigators an option to request trial by combat.
At the time of independence in 1776, trial by combat had not been abolished and it has never formally been abolished since.
Trial by battle in British English or trial by combat. noun. history. a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge.
Or trial by combat. noun. history. a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge.