1820 Terr. of Mich. Laws 207, An Act For The Punishment Of Crimes, § 49.
Abstract
Prohibited Dueling
Summary
This section penalizes challenging, encouraging, or facilitating a duel with weapons like swords or pistols with a fine up to $500 and up to two years of hard labor. Actually participating in a duel or acting as a second carries a harsher penalty of up to a $1,000 fine and four years of hard labor, even if no death occurs.
Law Text
Sect. 49. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall by word, message, letter or any other way, challenge another to fight a duel, with a rapier, or small sword, back sword, pistol or other dangerous weapon, or shall accept a challenge, although no duel be fought, or knowingly be the bearer of such challenge, or shall in any way abet, prompt, encourage, persuade, seduce or cause any person to fight a duel, or to challenge another to fight such duel, every person so offending, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, at hard labor, not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court : *And further*, If any person shall engage in and fight a duel with another, with a rapier, small sword, back sword, pistol or other dangerous weapon, although death does not thereby ensue, or shall be a second in any such duel, then and in such case, every person so offending, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment, at hard labor, not exceeding four years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
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DUELING