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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Chance-Medley
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CHANCE-MEDLEY (from the A.-Fr. chance-medlee, a mixed chance, and not from chaude-medlee, a hot affray), an accident of a mixed character, an old term in English law for a form of homicide arising out of a sudden affray or quarrel. The homicide has not the characteristic of "malice prepense" which would raise the death to murder, nor the completely accidental nature which would reduce it to homicide by misadventure. It was practically identical, therefore, with manslaughter.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chance-Medley'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chance-medley.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chance-Medley'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chance-medley.html. 1910.
