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Definition of wager of battle in English: wager of battlenoun historical A form of trial by which someone's guilt or innocence was decided by personal combat between the parties or their champions. Example sentencesExamples - In this trial, one of the contending parties issued a wager of battle, or challenge.
- Now I ask whether the King, when the dispute is brought before him, should decide for wager of battle.
- It will be seen from § 10 that knights of good family might still engage in wager of battle against their equals, although, in other respects a breach of the peace was to be severely punished.
- 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.
- As the concept of summary execution and wager of battle became incompatible with emerging societal values, the law changed.
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