An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, 121, Ch. 49, Sec. 21-22, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Iowa [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:12:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:40:45Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:41:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1843 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited challenging another or accepting an offer to duel, or participating as a second or promoter. Violators fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars. Violators where death ensues shall be guilty of murder. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 21. If any person shall challenge any other person to fight a duel in this territory, or elsewhere, such person being a resident of this territory, or shall accept a challenge to fight a duel, or shall knowingly be the bearer of a challenge, for the purpose aforesaid, or shall be a second to any person who fights a duel, or shall aid, promote, or assist any duel, every such person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars, and shall moreover be rendered incapable of holding or being elected to any office of profit, trust, or emolument, either civil or military, in this territory, or of voting at any election within the same, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary, at hard labor, not less than one nor more than three years. Sec. 22. Every person who shall fight a duel with any deadly weapon or weapons, and death ensues, shall be adjudged guilty of murder. Sec. 23. On the trial of any person for any offense under the provisions of the twenty-first section of this act, if there was a written challenge to fight, or any other paper, it shall not be necessary, on the part of the prosecution, to produce such challenge or paper, but shall [170] be sufficient to prove that there was a challenge or agreement to fight, either verbal or written, or that such person did fight or did agree to fight, as the case may be. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited challenging another or accepting an offer to duel, or participating as a second or promoter. Violators fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars. Violators where death ensues shall be guilty of murder. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3858 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Revised_Statutes_of_the_Territory_of_Iow/g9IqAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA121&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | DUELING | |
| dc.title | An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, 121, Ch. 49, Sec. 21-22, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911) |