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	Ordeals
		Ordeals were a means of obtaining evidence by trials, through which, by the direct interposition of God, the guilt or innocence of an accused person was firmly established, in the event that the truth could not be proved by ordinary means.
		Ordeals were resorted to when the contesting parties were unable to bring forward further evidence, for according to the ancient German law, the production of evidence was not arranged for by the court itself, but was left to the contestants.
		The Church combatted the judicial duel; Nicholas I declared it to be an infringement of the law of God and of the laws of the Church ("Epist.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/ordeals.html (2510 words)

	Duel - LoveToKnow 1911
		A duel was ordained by the parlement of Paris, which was fought in the presence of Charles VI.
		The last instance of a duel authorized by the magistrates, and conducted according to the forms of law, was the famous one between Francois de Vivonne de la Chataignerie and Guy Chabot de Jarnac.
		The duel was fought on the loth of July 1547 in the courtyard of the château of St Germain-en-Laye, in the presence of the king and a large assembly of courtiers.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Duel (4804 words)

	Duel
		The duel is, therefore, undoubtedly of heathen origin, and was so firmly rooted in the customs of the Gauls and Germans that it persisted among them even after their conversion.
		Whoever killed his opponent in a duel was to be punished with death; severe penalties were also enacted against the sending of a challenge and the acceptance of the same.
		The duel implies that the honour of the challenger has already been injured, and consequently that this injury is an accomplished fact; besides, the duel takes place according to agreement, so that it is not a case of self-defence against sudden attack.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/duel.html (3046 words)

	AllRefer.com - ordeal (Legal Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to choose between disputants.
		One form of ordeal, the trial by water, was that used to determine whether or not an accused woman was a witch.
		Allied to this in spirit was the duel, which supposedly worked on the principle that God would favor the cause of the righteous in the battle.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/ordeal.html (574 words)

	AllRefer.com - duel (Crime And Law Enforcement) - Encyclopedia
		The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person fought with his accuser under judicial supervision (see ordeal).
		The object of a duel was not necessarily to kill, and in most cases after the firing of a prescribed number of shots or drawing blood the fight would be stopped.
		Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in the United States, and Andrew Jackson took part in several duels.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/duel.html (401 words)

	Holmgang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Holmgang (or holmganga) was a duel practiced by Norsemen.
		The duel was fought either on a pre-specified plot or on a traditional place which was regularly used for this purpose.
		Although holmgang surely is one of the forerunners of duel ordeals of the Middle Ages, Norsemen did not seem to think that victory represented divine favor, just the winner's superiority in combat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holmgang (727 words)

	Duels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Duels and the act of dueling is something that has characterized not only the imagination of historians and modern warfare enthusiasts, but also the minds of writers and readers of literature for years.
		Judicial duels, on the other hand, were official acts, during which both parties (the plaintiff and the defendant) fought their grievances out on the battle field with swords in front of a judge.
		As Frevert states, "Duels were duels of honor in which the participants engaged for the purpose of demonstrating their sense of honor rather than for the purpose of achieving a definite result.
	faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/duels.html (768 words)

	Personal Justice
		The treatment of the vanquished in such a duel, especially one in defense of high principles, or of gentle womanhood, was generally brutal and ruthless.
		To decline to accept a challenge for a chivalrous duel was to be branded a coward, and to be considered beneath contempt as a man. It was from this example that the Duel of Honor was born.
		As dueling became more and more popular, vast treatises were published to regulate every circumstance of the duel, from the cause of the quarrel through the challenge and choice of weapons, to the fight itself.
	www.mephistomedia.com /essays/duel.html (1743 words)

	DUEL & The Distributor
		DUEL: The Foreward is written by Matthew R. Bradley, who explains how Richard Matheson experienced a life threatening ordeal to get the idea for DUEL.
		DUEL: The Short Story is 22 pages long and starts off as a relaxing drive, just like the movie, but at the first mention of the truck, you realize things are going to get rough for Mann.
		DUEL: The Script is 91 pages long and includes descriptions of camera angles, Mann's thoughts and dialogue, much of which is different from the movie.
	members.tripod.com /webzapper/duelandthedistributor.html (496 words)

	Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Chapter 15: Library of Economics ...
		If the ordeals had been confined to questions like this, the laity would have had little or no objection to them; but when they were introduced as decisive in all the disputes that might arise between man and man, the opposition of all those whose prime virtue was personal bravery, was necessarily excited.
		Duels were not rare in the other countries of Europe at the same period; but in France they were so frequent, that historians, in speaking of that age, designate it as "l'epoque de la fureur des duels." The Parliament of Paris endeavoured, as far as in its power lay, to discourage the practice.
		Scores of duels (many of them fatal) have been fought from disputes at cards, or a place at a theatre, while hundreds of challenges, given and accepted over-night, in a fit of drunkenness, have been fought out the next morning to the death of one or both of the antagonists.
	www.econlib.org /library/Mackay/macEx15.html (15597 words)

	[No title]
		the judicial duel was an official act during which the \softline plaintiff and the defendant contested their legal claims with the sword in the presence of \softline a judge, and sometimes also of the ruling prince and witnesses.
		The arguments against \softline dueling ultimately had so much force in logic and common sense that the proponents of \softline dueling were forced to defend the practice.\par }\ftnrstcont\pard \fs24\sl480\slmult1 {\plain \fs24 \tab Although the arguments against dueling are fundamentally related to each other, \softline they can nonetheless be divided into six groups.
		To opponents of dueling, \'93honor\'94 was synonymous with pride and social \softline arrogance.\par }{\plain \fs24 \tab Despite the wisdom of these arguments, dueling persisted, and its defenders \softline formulated their own arguments in support of the practice.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mfblaw/duel.rtf (2501 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Duels Work"
		Prior to the 11th and 12th centuries, someone accused of a crime would have to go through a trial or ordeal of some kind [ref], and one form of trial was the trial by combat.
		Rivals for jobs or political appointments were all potential dueling partners, while elections could be decided with swords or guns rather than votes.
		According to Dick Steward in "Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri," [The duelist's] immediate objective was...
	people.howstuffworks.com /duel4.htm (469 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.
		The ordeal reverses the correct principle that a man must be held to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, and throws the burden of proof upon the accused instead of the accuser.
		The customary ordeals in the middle ages were water-ordeals and fire-ordeals; the former were deemed plebeian, the latter (as well as the duel), patrician.
		The mediaeval church, with her strong belief in the miraculous, could not and did not generally oppose the ordeal, but she baptized it and made it a powerful means to enforce her authority over the ignorant and superstitious people she had to deal with.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc4.i.vi.vii.html?bcb=0 (2066 words)

	Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These were the oath upon the Evangelists; the ordeal of the cross, and the fire ordeal, for persons in the higher ranks; the water ordeal, for the humbler classes; and, lastly, the Corsned, or bread and cheese ordeal, for members of their own body.
		At the time fixed for the ordeal, a caldron of oil is placed over a fire; when it boils, a piece of money is dropped into the vessel; the prisoner's arm is unsealed, and washed in the presence of his judges and accusers.
		A memorable instance of the slightness of the pretext on which a man could be forced to fight a duel to the death, occurs in the Memoirs of the brave Constable, Du Guesclin.
	www.litrix.com /madraven/madne009.htm (16034 words)

	DVD Times - Duel
		Duel began life as a TV movie in the US, before playing theatrically in Europe where it was matted to a standard 1.85:1 theatrical ratio.
		Duel highlights his talent for making the most of a more restrictive space, and he often uses it to convey how trapped his lead is, filling the screen with his worried, nervously-sweating face, or shooting up towards the truck, making it look even more imposing as it covers the frame and blocks out the light.
		Duel is a film that transcended the boundaries of both the genre and the medium it was designed for and became a huge influence on a generation, with modern productions such as Jeepers Creepers and Roadkill still borrowing heavily from a film made before most of its leads had been born.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4350 (2331 words)

	duel
		Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture.(The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness, and Honour)(Book......
		An affair of honor: in the summer of 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel.
		The 200-year duel: two centuries after their famous forebears met on the banks of the Hudson, the Hamiltons and the Burrs are still......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0816243.html (454 words)

	Malleus Maleficarum - Part III, Third Head, Question XVII
		His first point is that a duel, like the other trial by ordeal, has as its purpose the judgement of something hidden, which ought to be left to the judgement of God, as we have said.
		Therefore, a duel is altogether unlawful, not only on the part of the appellant and the respondent, but also on the part of the Judge and his advisers, who are all equally to be considered homicides or parties to manslaughter.
		Hence even less that other criminals ought witches to be allowed this trial by ordeal, because their intimate familiarity with the devil; and from the very fact of their appealing to this trial they are to be held as suspected witches.
	www.malleusmaleficarum.org /part_III/mm03_17a.html (1228 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Lex Familie Wormatiensis
		But if none of the kin of the dead wish to fight a duel with the killer, the killer may clear himself before the bishop by boiling water [29] ; he shall then pay the weregeld and have peace with kin of the dead man, and they shall be compelled to accept.
		He whose champion loses the duel, loses the case, and his testimony shall be revealed as false testimony, as though under oath.
		[29] Like the duel, the ordeal of boiling water was intended to demonstrate the judgement of God for or against the defendant.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/lexworms.html (2964 words)

	The Truth About Duels
		Duels and dueling, however, are not a fictional contrivance of the historical romance author.
		Duels were banned thus duelists had to conduct duels in secret.
		The fatal duel between two army officers, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Winchilsea, the Marquis of Londonderry and Beau Brummel was the catalyst for making it an offense to conduct a duel.
	www.romanceeverafter.com /the_truth_about_duels.htm (1044 words)

	Men of Iron
		In a duel, the fencer is compelled to execute an ultra-careful form of fencing, which, indeed, is an almost unworthy expression of the science he knows.
		The duel proper died with a whimper after World War I. A few paunchy Frenchmen took a shot at reviving it in the fifties, without being able to capture as much as a sparkle of its dashing history.
		During the duel, when the bare chest suddenly is exposed to the threat of the opponent's sharply honed weapon, nature--which wild fencers or brawlers try to deny--demands its rights, so that most are induced to the instinctive parry, rather than cutting simultaneously.
	www.koryubooks.com /library/camberger1.html (3241 words)

	Holmgang - It's Use, Abuse, and Fictionalization.
		Almost all duels were to be fought three to seven days after the challenge, although as will be shown later, there were exceptions to this.
		Had the Nordics seen the duel as an Ordeal, a duel would have been fought instead of the use of the hot iron, or at least a challenge made.
		In Norway, until dueling was outlawed, the winner gained all the property of the loser; while in Iceland winnings came to be controlled.
	www.stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/holmgang.htm (4783 words)

	RPGFan Soundtracks - Legaia Duel Saga OST
		It almost sounds as if she wasn't very interested in the project and just spewed out whatever she could just to be done with it.
		Maybe I'm being harsh, but if it weren't for her, I'd probably have considered Legaia Duel Saga one of the best OST's to have been released in some time.
		Legaia Duel Saga's beauty is subtle, its energy gentle, and its deficiencies glaring; amidst some truly amazing music are pieces too jarring and bland to pass notice.
	www.rpgfan.com /soundtracks/legaia-duel/index.html (1035 words)

	[ Janime ] Yu Gi Oh A n i m e & C o m i c World
		The duel between Jyoonouchi and Mask the Rock continues.
		At the same time, Leon is dueling against Dr.Richard on Roller Coaster theme park.
		So Professor Hopskins adds that it is a normal characteristic of a player because he enjoys such a fun duel monster game.
	www.janime.info /series188.html (2161 words)

	duel
		The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person fought with his accuser under judicial supervision (see
		The duel of honor, which actually evolved in the 16th cent., was very closely linked with the code of
		fencing - fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0816243.html (357 words)

	ordeal
		In England it was a regular form of trial and persisted until trial by
		A common form of ordeal in contentions between two parties was the submission to some trial of chance, e.g., casting
		initiation - initiation, the transition and attendant ceremonies, such as ordeals and rites, involved in passing...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0836795.html (525 words)

	DUEL...Peterbilt Versus Valiant!
		In the end, Dave survives his ordeal and seems to be very happy that it's over.
		The IMDB describes DUEL as an action thriller, but after you watch it a few times, you realize it's loaded with hilarious scenes.
		Amazingly, parts of DUEL were used in The Incredible Hulk TV series.
	members.tripod.com /webzapper/duel.html (575 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ordeals
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		Among the Jews existed the test of the Water of Jealousy, conducted by the priests, in which the woman accused of adultery must consume the draught in their presence, after having offered certain sacrifices, and the effects of which established the woman's guilt or innocence (Numbers 5:12-31).
		The duel, called judicium Dei in the Book of Laws of the Burgundian King Gundobad (c.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11276b.htm (2504 words)

	RAMBAUD ON THE KIEVAN RUS' PRINCIPALITY UNDER VLADIMIR AND YAROSLAV
		Vladimir, after having employed this supreme means of repression, returned to the system of the wergeld, which besides helped to fill the treasury.
		The Byzantine mode of procedure likewise rejected the judicial duel, the judgment of God and the compurgatores long defended by habit.
		But, as in Gaul Roman law existed for Church officers and part of the natives, side by side with the Frank or Burgundian law, so in Russia the Byzantine codes of Justinian and Basil the Macedonian, were established at the side of the Scandinavian code of Iaroslaf.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/VladYar.html (5572 words)

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