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A peculiar species of trial by jury, introduced in the time of Heniy II., giving the tenant or defendant in a writ of right the alternative of a trial by battel, or by his peers. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 42,
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A peculiar species of trial by jury, introduced in the time of Heniy II., giving the tenant or defendant in a writ of right the alternative of a trial by battel, or by his peers. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 42,