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Ch. Challenging
7
By prevailing prejudice
challenger & challengee inhibited
from pleading
regard to life but
allowed to plead regard
to money.
1 By the prevailing prejudice 2 Challenger & and Challengee stands
inhibited from pleading or confessing any regard for life or
exemption from bodily suffering produced by combat. But by this
same law precedent law neither stands inhibited from confessing or even
pleading regard for money or moneys worth — or in a word
for pleading prosperity.
8
Proof practice of being
held to bail boundover
to keep the peace
Proof the continually occurring practice of being bound by
recognizances backed sanctioned by pecuniary penalties: the universality
of this practice, and the universality of its success in preventing all
combat and thence all suffering in consequence.
Identifier: | JB/016/070/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
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