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