Ashford v. Thornton
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The Genius of the Common Law
Well-known early nineteenth-century English case concerning the right to trial by battle.
the appellant hoped to persuade the court that the case was so clear against the appellee as to deprive him of the right to ‘defend the same with his body.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A notorious 1818 English legal case in which trial by battle was successfully claimed as a defence to an appeal of murder, prompting statutory abolition of the practice.
See Ashford v.