Battel
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Bataile,/r.
Combat; duel. ^Vager of battel: a method of trial by personal conflict which prevailed in the courts of chivalry; on appeals and approvements for felony; and on writs of right, in which last case the parties might fight by champions. If the appellee was vanquished, he was hanged; if he killed the appellant or maintained the fight from sunrise to star-rise he the word craven (to beg) he lost his liberam legem and became infamous; and the appellee recovered damages and was forever quit.