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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crim. law, are those persons who assist, direct and support others engaged in fighting a duel. As they are often much to blame in inciting the duellists to their rash act, and as they are always assisting in the commission of the crime, the laws generally punish them with severity; but, in consequence of the false ideas too generally entertained on the subject of eee they are too seldom enforc-