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A code duello is a set of rules for a one-on-one combat, or duel.
Codes duello regulate dueling and thus help prevent vendettas between families and other social factions. They ensure that non-violent means of reaching agreement be exhausted and that harm be reduced, both by limiting the terms of engagement and by providing medical care. Finally, they ensure that the proceedings have a number of witnesses. The witnesses could assure grieving members of factions of the fairness of the duel, and could help provide testimony if legal authorities become involved.
Usage examples of "code duello".
The aristocracy settled their disputes only through champions or the code duello.
It'll be in the auditorium of the College of the Code Duello, where the Tri-Di coverage will be perfect.
The suppression of the genetic slave trade was another, but she felt even more strongly-on a personal level-about the Code Duello.
The slightest offence under the elaborate Code Duello led to a public challenge at any one of the many corner arenas, where smiling Hunters chose between the parties and laid bets on the outcome.
The slightest offense under the elaborate code duello led to a public challenge at any one of the many corners arenas, where smiling Hunters chose one of the two parties and laid bets on the outcome.
And inevitably, almost imperceptibly, the full Code Duello was revived.
Aurellis gentle smile made Li wish briefly that they were on one of the Out Worlds which had resurrected the code duello.
Aurelli's gentle smile made Li wish briefly that they were on one of the Out Worlds which had resurrected the code duello.
And while Grayson had no equivalent of Manticore's code duello, its fundamental law still enshrined any steadholder's right to trial by combat against the Protector's decrees.
If a trial is unacceptable, I must take refuge in our Code Duello.
Members of Parliament are by tradition exempt from the Code Duello.
The rules of Clausewitz, Mahan, all of them were obsolete as the Code Duello.