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Definition of Chance-medley
1. Noun. An unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chance-medley
Literary usage of Chance-medley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1813)
"THE chance-medley OF EXISTENCE " THE scream of disapprobation at the journe " we
are compelled to perform." This concei pleased me, and I thought it both ..."
2. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"So if a man be felling a tree in his own ground, and it fall and kill a person,
it is chance-medley. 6 E. 4. 7. But in all these cases, if it doth only hurt ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"Not Guilty of the i murder, but Guilty of chance-medley. Then the Jury having
considered of their Verdicts, without going out of Court. ..."
4. A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels by Michael Foster, Michael Dodson (1809)
"What therefore is the true import of the words self-defence upon chance-medley,
which the statute useth as descriptive of that offence which did incur the ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"Not Guilty of murder, but Guilty of chance-medley. Clerk. James Annesley, hold
up your hand. —Joseph Redding-, hold up your hand.—Geu- tlemen of the jury, ..."
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