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Campfight

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

The fighting of two champions or combatants in the field (campus); the judicial combat, or dwellum.

8 Inst. 221.

CAMPUS (Lat. a field). A share or division of land; a division of that which would otherwise be in gross; champerty. Blount; Cowell. CAMPUS MAM (Law Lat.) The field of May. An anniversary assembly of the Saxons, held on May Day, when they confederated for the defense of the kingdom against all its enemies.

Wharton.

CAMPUS MARTII (Law Lat.) The field of March. A national assemblage of the Franks held in that month.