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23 March 1826
Penal Code

Ch. D
§

3 Motive examples
1 Self-preservation from
ignominy
2 Hatred to intended
victim
3 Vanity

Art. of the motives by which
a challenge to fight a duel is produced,
the following are examples. They may be
considered as constituting so many species
of the offence.

Where is one obliged
to call another to
account for conduct
toward a third
party, without either
his act or menace -
neither child or sibling
as where a wife, encourages
the attentions of a profligate - or
where any female under his a mans protection
or being the object of his addresses is
"betrayed" or seduced.

1. Motive: self preservation from
the contempt and ignominy apprehended
by a man from his having been, or supposed
to have been the a sufferer by an act of corporal
insult or insulting menacement
or by his being so situated as
by the law of the society
in which he lives, he is held bound to undertake
the quarrel of another, as an old man or a woman. or wrongful defamation.

2. Motive. The desire of Hatred towards the
intended sufferer. the desire to know that he is suffering of seeing
him suffer under contempt.

3. Motive. Vanity - Pleasure at
the thought of the respect so expected to be
acquired; expectation of reward at the
hands of the publick opinion tribunal for the courage thus manifested.

good shot
see (4) motive

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