Chaud-medley
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and thus distinguished from chance medley, which is killing In a casual affray in self-defensa
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
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.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Medley.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Killing a man in an affray in the heat of passion.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[L. Fr. chaud melle, from chaud, hot, and mesler, meler, to mingle; L. Lat. calida melleia.] In criminal law. The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion; and is thus distinguished from chance medley, (with which, according to Blackstone, it is sometimes confounded,) which is killing in a casual affray in self defence. 4 Bl. Com. 184. Ersk. Inst. b. 4, tit. 4, § 40.