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1825 Sept Penal Code
Ch III Offences affecting Person + Rep
§ 3. Challenging
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Sole conceivable case
of conflict completely
voluntary on each part
a mutual desire of
assasination
Of all the cases in which, on the part of
him, by whom the challenge has not been given,
a desire to engage in the conflict can have been
produced the only conceivable one, is that in
whichin correspondency with the desire on the
part of the challenger the- a desire to rid himself
of the existence of the challengee, a correspondent
desire has place on the part of the challengee
to rid himself of the existence of the challenger.
Each of them taking this course, as being exposed
in a less degree to punishment than
would be that of assasination without
warning.
Notes than in this sole conceivable case of
a conflict completely on each part voluntary,
the mischief, if any there be, is at its minimum.
It is confined to the individual members of the
conflict - the challenger and the challengee. In the
person In the breach of no otherperson, unless then respective
relatives of two persons of the disposition
here in question be worth accepting. In
the breach on no other person is any mischief
of the second order produced by the conflict,
even supposing it to terminate in death. Neither
from the result of this individual conflict,
nor from that of any similar one, iscanany other
person conceive himself to be exposed to sufferance
in any shape. If like the parties in question,
it showed ever happen to whose adversary
he is, to wish for any chance of putting an enemy
to death, without the risk attached to such
operation performed without consent
so he may do
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