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Parker McCoy's avatar

That's such a rich history across so much of Europe. The Corsicans with the head-daggers sounds wild and funny, although brutally funny. Man, he killed the guy with one billiard ball throw. That must have been some throw. I guess it's a good thing that Babe Ruth never got into a billiard ball duel with anybody. Great post.

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Curing Crime's avatar

This is fascinating and incredibly well-written! This approach to legal disputes is so unrecognizable to us and seems very unfair from our point of view. On the other hand, the judicial system of today has its issues.

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Paul Lenz's avatar

Ahhh, thank you! I was genuinely astonished to learn that it wasn't until the 19th century that duelling was removed from English law.

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Curing Crime's avatar

I wonder how many vestiges are still in the books across the world. These laws, while not enforced, are still "the law" and could potentially be invoked, re-enforced, or structure other more modern laws.

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Paul Lenz's avatar

I would *hope* that the the digitisation (and making freely available) of laws would enable the programatic analysis of law to identify such things (which, I suspect, almost certainly exist in some instances). In a former life I worked with organisations such as https://africanlii.org who were opening this kind of stuff up.

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Paul Lenz's avatar

Greg and Mariya who run https://laws.africa/about are total rock stars who have dedicated their careers to this.

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