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CHANCE-MEDLEY Definition & Legal Meaning

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In criminal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, but in strictness it is applicable to such killing only as happens in defending one’s self. 4 Bl. Comm. 184.

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