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Acrefight

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

or ACRE. <A camp or fleld fight; a sort of duel, or judicial combat, anciently fought by single combatants, English and Scotch, between the frontiers of the two kingdoms with swordand lance. Called “campfight,” and the combatants “cham: pions,” from tha open eld that was the stage of trial. Cowell.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

A camp fight; an English and Scotch, in an open Act of bankruptcy: an act adjudged bankrupt. Act in of God: an occurrence which Act of settlement: the 12 Crown was limited to the premacy: the 1 EUz. c. 1, Crown in matters ecclesiastical formity: the 1 Eliz. c. 2, and the public worship of the Church