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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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.