Trial by combat

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Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.

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Image: Jörg Breu der Jüngere (died 1547), Paulus Hector Mair (died 1579), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.