英语词汇“wager of battle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wager of battle

noun historical

A form of trial by which someone’s guilt or innocence was decided by personal combat between the parties or their champions.Lord Morley appears to have risen to repeat the accusation against Salisbury and the latter to have defied him to prove it by wager of battle....

In this trial, one of the contending parties issued a wager of battle, or challenge.
As the concept of summary execution and wager of battle became incompatible with emerging societal values, the law changed.

单词	wager of battle
释义	wager of battle noun historical A form of trial by which someone’s guilt or innocence was decided by personal combat between the parties or their champions.Lord Morley appears to have risen to repeat the accusation against Salisbury and the latter to have defied him to prove it by wager of battle.... In this trial, one of the contending parties issued a wager of battle, or challenge. As the concept of summary execution and wager of battle became incompatible with emerging societal values, the law changed.
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