stackyFACTSYou'd assume sword fighting to solve a property dispute ended in the Dark Ages, but New Jersey kept it around just in case.
You'd assume sword fighting to solve a property dispute ended in the Dark Ages, but New Jersey kept it around just in case. Due to heavy reliance on outdated English common law, the legal right to challenge an accuser to physical combat remained on the books in the state until a British court case accidentally highlighted the ridiculous loophole in 1818. Only then did lawmakers rush to aggressively strike it from the legal code.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
History →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Forget paying exorbitant lawyer fees; in the Middle Ages, you could just beat your neighbor with a stick until a judge decided you were right. Trial by combat…
Discover more
Guns are far too loud; a true gentleman aggressively settles arguments with heavily infected meat. When challenged to a deadly fight, a clever intellectual…
Discover more
Dawn light, mist curling, two figures pacing steps apart—a ritual of danger and etiquette bound together. Duels weren’t chaotic fistfights, but carefully…
Discover more
Long before modern climate activism, authorities realized that burning certain types of coal made the air completely unbreathable. Early environmental…
Discover more
How do you prove someone copied your massive list of words? You just lie. Lexicographers would deliberately invent entirely meaningless words and sneak them…
Discover more
If you think modern political attack ads are toxic, the Romans practically invented the genre. Politicians heavily utilized graffiti and public poetry to…
Discover more