Challenge

To accuse, to call to answer, to appeal in the old sense of the word; to dispute or call in question; to object or except to a person; to except to persons returned to be jurors, which last is more especially the present meaning. Challenge to the array: an objection to a whole panel of jurore. Challenge to the polls: an objection to one or more of the persons returned as jurors on the trial of a cause singularly and personally. These are divided into peremptory challenges, which are challenges allowed to the accused in a criminal case: challenges for cause, or principal challenges, which -are again divided into challenges propter honoris respectum. challenges propter defectum, challenges propter affectum, and challenges propter delictum,; and challenges for favor, a weaker kind of challenge propter affectum, as pi-obable opinion, acquaintance, or the like. v. Peremptory challenge; Principal challenge; Propter, etc.

PRINCIPAL. Such as ig made for acause whicli when substantiated is of itself sufiicient evidence of bias in favor of oragainst the party challenging. Cao. Litt. 1566. See 8 Bl. Comm. 863; 4 Bl. Comm. 358,

criminal lav, is a request by one person to another to fight a duel. It is a high offence at common law and indictable as tending to a breach of the peace. It may be in writing or verbally. Vide Hawk. P. C. b. 1, c. 63, s. 3; 6 East, R. 464; 3 East, R. 581; 1 Dana, R. 524; 1 South. R. 40; 3 Wheel. Cr. C. 245; 8 Roger’s Rec. 133; 2 M‘Cord, R. 334; 1 Hawks, R. 487; 1 Const. R. 107. He who carries a challenge is also punishable by indictment. Tn