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Demand Trial By Combat In Washington
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The ancient practice of trial by combat was abandoned hundreds of years ago and has never been employed in America.
Variants or trial by combat. : a trial of a dispute formerly determined by the outcome of a personal battle or combat between the parties or in an issue joined upon a writ of right between their champions. called also judicial combat, wager of battle.
Washington state is one of only two states in America where mutual combat is totally legal. Most states do not have a specific law relating to mutual combat, leaving consensual fights in a sort of gray area.
At the time of independence in 1776, trial by combat had not been abolished and it has never formally been abolished since. The question of whether trial by combat remains a valid alternative to civil action has been argued to remain open, at least in theory.
In Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister asks for a trial by combat as a desperate measure to defend himself against the murder charges he faces. He is aware that the legal system in King's Landing is heavily biased against him and that he lacks a fair chance in a standard trial.
Definition: Trial by combat was a way of settling disputes in the Middle Ages where the two people involved in the disagreement would fight each other. The idea was that God would give victory to the person who was in the right.
Trial by battle in British English or trial by combat. noun. history. a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge.
All relevant evidence is admissible, except as limited by constitutional requirements or as otherwise provided by statute, by these rules, or by other rules or regulations applicable in the courts of this state. Evidence which is not relevant is not admissible.
The best evidence rule provides that the original documents must be provided as evidence, unless the original is lost, destroyed, or otherwise unobtainable.
Courts are governed by a series of procedural rules based in statutes, court rules, and precedent, and none of these rules give litigators an option to request trial by combat.