Chaud-Medley
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A homicide committed in the heat of an affray and while under the iniluence of passion; it is thus distinguished from chunce-medley, which is the killing of a man in a casual afiray in selfdefense.
4 Bl. Comm. 184. See 1 Russ. Crimes, 660.