Adonis on October 13, 2006, 07:13:09 PM
Code Duello: The Rules of Dueling
Reprinted ...
... ," Chilton Books, 1963.
The Code Duello, covering the practice of ...
... and points of honor, was drawn up and settled at ...
... Assizes, 1777, by gentlemen-delegates of Tipperary, Galway, Sligo, Mayo and ...
... adoption throughout Ireland. The Code was generally also followed in England ...
... deviations.
Rule 1. The first offense requires the first apology, though ...
... retort may have been more offensive than the insult. Example: A ...
... first apology because he gave the first offense, and then (after one fire) B may ...
...
N.B. The above rules apply to all cases of offenses in retort not of stronger ...
... 3. If a doubt exist who gave the first offense, the decision rests with the ...
... 4. When the lie direct is the first offense, the aggressor must either beg ...
... . The alternatives, therefore -- the offender handing a cane to the injured ...
... shots, and then asking pardon without proffer of the cane.
If swords are used, ...
... by a blow (being the two greatest offenses), no reconciliation can take ...
... a blow is never allowable, and the offense of the lie, therefore, merges in ...
... in such cases, because no personal offense transpired.
Rule 7. But no ...
... actually taken ground, without exchange of fires.
Rule 8. In the above case, no ...
... is obliged to divulge his cause of challenge (if private) unless required ...
... their meeting.
Rule 9. All imputations of cheating at play, races, etc., to be ...
... considered as, by one degree, a greater offense than if given to the gentleman ...
... to be regulated accordingly.
Rule 11. Offenses originating or accruing from the ...
... of ladies' reputations, to be considered ...
... less unjustifiable than any others of the same class, and as admitting of ...
... to be determined by the circumstances of the case, but always favorable to the ...
... to have challenged without receiving offense; and the challenged ought, if he ...
... offense, to have made an apology before he ...
... prohibited.
Rule 14. Seconds to be of equal rank in society with the ...
... be challenged intend leaving the place of offense before morning; for it is ...
... , he can decline any second species of weapon proposed by the challenged.
...
... ; the seconds fix the time and terms of firing.
Rule 18. The seconds load in ...
... of each other, unless they give their ...
... -- first by signal; secondly, by word of command; or thirdly, at pleasure -- as ...
... for that day.
Rule 23. If the cause of the meeting be of such a nature that no ...
... slap him before he could say Marquis of Queensberry.
How about a farting dual ...
... ? I am ready!
Here is my offical fart dualin' rules.
1. Both men ...
