trial by combat

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Noun

trial by combat (countable and uncountable, plural trials by combat)

  1. 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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