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chaud-mellé, mella Sc. Law.
[a. OF. chaude mellee (in med.L. calida melleia) ‘heated affray or broil’: see mêlée. (By Selden and others erroneously identified with chance medley, from the partial coincidence of sense and form.)]
A sudden broil or affray arising from the heat of passion; hence, the wounding or killing of a man in such an affray, without premeditation.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 23 Gyve ony be suddane chawdmellè Hapnyd swa slayne to be Be ony of the Thaynys kyne. 1597Skene De Verb. Signif., Chaud-Melle, in Latine Rixa; ane hoat suddaine tuilzie, or debaite, quhilk is opponed as contrair to fore-thoucht-fellonie. Ibid., Melletum, Medletum, Chaud-mella is ane fault or trespasse, quhilk is committed be ane hoate suddainty, & not of set purpose, or præcogitata malitia. 1672Selden Notes on Hengham in Fortescue 123 Our Chaunce medley corrupted from ‘Chaud melle’. 1752Scots Mag. (1753) May 231/2 The murder is not said to have been committed from sudden passion, or chaud mella. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 184 Chance-medley, or (as some rather chuse to write it) chaud-medley; the former of which..signifies a casual affray, the latter an affray in the heat of blood or passion. 1860C. Innes Scotl. Mid. Ages vi. 198. |