| 单词 | to wage battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wage battle a. to wage battle [= Anglo-Norman gager bataille, Law Latin vadiare duellum] : To pledge oneself to judicial combat: = gage v. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear causes [verb (intransitive)] > pledge oneself to trial by combat to wage battle1569 to gage battle1586 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 292 He offered to wage his battayle with the sayde Duke in the court of the French king. 1609 J. Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. in Regiam Majestatem xxxi. 82 b It is statute, that the defender sall first wage the battell, and thereafter sweare. a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 25 Brothers or cosins shall not wage battell in a writ of right. a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) lxxii. 158 In a Writ of right, if the tenant wage battail by his Champion. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxii. 339 When the tenant in a writ of right pleads the general issue,..and offers to prove it by the body of his champion,..the tenant in the first place must produce his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage or pledge, thus wages or stipulates battel with the champion of the demandant. 1819 Act 59 Geo. III c. 46 §2 From and after the passing of this Act, in any Writ of Right..the Tenant shall not be received to wage Battel, nor shall Issue be joined nor Trial be had by Battel in any Writ of Right. < as lemmas |
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