1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 530-31, ch. 43, § 524-25
| dc.coverage.spatial | Oregon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T14:06:02Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T17:01:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T04:08:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1864 | |
| dc.description.abstract | If any person shall challenge another to fight a duel, or transmit the message for another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SEC. 524. If any person shall engage in a duel with a deadly weapon, although no killing ensue, or shall challenge another to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, or shall send or deliver any verbal or written message, purporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, not less than one, nor more than ten years. SEC. 525. If any person accept a challenge to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, or shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, although no duel ensue, or shall be present at the fighting of such a duel, as an aid, second or surgeon, or shall advise, encourage or promote such duel, such person upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than five years. | |
| dc.description.summary | The law criminalized dueling with deadly weapons and issuing or delivering challenges to duel, even if no duel occurred, with penalties of 1–10 years in prison. Accepting a challenge or knowingly assisting, encouraging, or participating in a duel as a second or surgeon carried a penalty of 1–5 years. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/5048 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Organic_and_Other_General_Laws_of_Or/bM5NAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=oregon+laws&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | DUELING | |
| dc.title | 1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 530-31, ch. 43, § 524-25 |