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Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Assistants at a duel. They are equally guilty with the principals under many of the statutes against duelling. See "Duelling."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Criminal Law. Those persons who assist, direct, and support others engaged in fighting a duel. Where the principal In deliberate duelling would be guilty of murder, the second is considered equally guilty. It has been contended that the second of him who is killed is equally guilty with the second of the successful principal; but this is denied by Hale, who considers such a one guilty only of a great misdemeanor; 2 Bish. Cr. Law § 311. See Accessory.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
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-