Note 15 — Chapter IV · Trial by Battle.
Reading edition
Comyns Dig. 252.
Neilson states that private duels succeeded trial by battle, in the 16’ and 17’ centuries, but of course trial by battle was not abolished in England until the year 1819, and duelling had continued for several centuries then. (Neilson’s “Trial by Combat,” pp. 18, 328.)