1856 Ill. Comp. Stat. 365
| dc.coverage.spatial | Illinois | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:04:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:35:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:30:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1855 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Offenses Against the Persons of Individuals, Div. V, § 43: Prohibited dueling or agreeing to duel or single combat with any engine, instrument, or weapon where the probably consequence might be the death of either party, and shall kill his antagonist, or shall inflict a wound where the party shall die within one year. Each violator, his second, the second of the person killed, all aiders, abettors, and counselors convicted shall be punished under a high misdemeanor, punished by a prison term not less than one nor more than five years. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | (43.) Sec. XLIII. If any person hereafter shall willfully and maliciously, or by agreement, fight a duel or single combat, with any engine, instrument or weapon, the probable consequence of which might be the death of either party, and in so doing, shall kill his antagonist, or any person or persons, or shall inflict such wound as that the party injured shall die thereof within one year thereafter, every such offender, his second, as well as the second of the person killed, and all aiders, abettors and counselors, being thereof duly convicted, shall be considered to have committed a high misdemeanor, and shall be punished by confinement to labor in the penitentiary for any term not exceeding five years, nor less than one year. (44.) Sec. XLIV. If any person shall hereafter challenge another to fight a duel with any deadly weapon, or in any manner whatever, the probable issue of which might result in the death of either; or if any person shall accept a challenge or agree to fight a duel, every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be rendered incapable of holding or being elected to any office of profit, trust or emolument, either civil or military, under the government of this State, and be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. | |
| dc.description.summary | These laws make dueling illegal: anyone who fights a duel that causes death or fatal injury—including the duelists, their seconds, and accomplices—commits a high misdemeanor punishable by 1–5 years in prison, while anyone who merely challenges, accepts, or agrees to fight a duel is barred from holding public office and may be fined up to $100. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3765 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Compilation_of_the_Statutes_of_the_Sta/IjdFAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA365&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | DUELING | |
| dc.title | 1856 Ill. Comp. Stat. 365 |