[ANSTHRLD] baronial service awards

[Mike Wyvill]

http://home.uchicago.edu/~djm2/archives/sent.1995.10/trial.by.combat

And as I am a Marylander (the English didn't like us Catholics) I am not at 
all surprised by this.

Engenulf

>From: Diane Rudin <serena1570 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,  Inc." 
><heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,  Inc." 
><heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] baronial service awards
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > *Was* there a case in Maryland where a party to a lawsuit
> > (presumably about land) invoked trial by combat?
>
>Dunno.  It's on the wrong side of the pond.  :)
>
>Depending on date, I wouldn't be surprised, though.  One of the
>things that was debated in Parliament (during the debates over what
>Americans would come to call the Intolerable Acts) c. 1770 was
>whether to abolish trial by wager of battle  in the colonies.  In the
>end it was decided that they couldn't abolish it in the colonies
>without abolishing it in England, and that provision was dropped.  So
>it was still legal in the colonies, and since the U.S. is a nice
>oddball combination of common and civil (statutory) law, no doubt
>there were some colonies in which it remained in force for some time,
>until such a case brought to their attention the need to expunge it
>from the books, by legislative act.
>
>--Serena
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>http://mail.yahoo.com
>_______________________________________________
>Heralds mailing list
>Heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/heralds-ansteorra.org