Champion

he who fights for another, or takes his place in a quarrel; it also includes him who fights his own battles. Bract. lib.

4, tr. 2, c.

21. ‘CHANCE, accident. <As the law punishes a crime only when there is an intention to commit it, it follows that when those acts are done in the performance of a lawful act by mere chance or accident, which would have amounted to a there is no crime. For example, if workmen were employed in blasting rocks ina retired field, and a person not knowing of the circumstance should enter the field, and was killed by a piece of the rock, there would be no guilt in the workmen.

1 East, P. C. 262; Foster, 262; 1 Hale’s P. C. 472; 4 Bl. Com. 192.

Vide Accident.