Such person may be indicted and tried in any county within this territory. Every person who leaves this territory with intent to elude any of the provisions of this chapter, and to commit any act out of this territory, such as is prohibited by this chapter, and who does any act, although out of this territory, which would be punishable by said provisions, if committed within this territory, is punishable in the same manner as he would have been in case such act had been committed within this territory. Every person who posts or publishes another for not fighting a duel, or for not sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or who uses any reproachful or contemptuous language, verbal, written, or printed, to or concerning another, for not sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or with intent to provoke a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person guilty of sending, uttering, or making to another any words or signs whatever, with intent to provoke or induce such person to give or receive any challenge to fight a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any words, spoken or written, or any signs uttered or made to any person, expressing or implying, or intended to express or imply a desire, request, invitation, or demand, to fight a duel, or to meet for the purpose of fighting a duel, are deemed a challenge. Every person who challenges another to fight a duel every person who accepts any such challenge and any person who knowingly forwards, carries or delivers any such challenge is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years.
Every person who is present at the time when any duel is fought, either as second, aid or surgeon, or who advises, or gives and countenance to any duel, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years. Every person convicted of fighting a duel is thereafter incapable of holding, or being elected, or appointed to any office, place or post of trust or emolument, civil or military, under this territory. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel.
Dupont, 2 McCord 334 (South Carolina) 334 Royall v. Jones, 10 Bush (Kentucky, 1874) 725 Barker v. Dupont 2 McCord 334 (South Carolina) Royall v. 'Under the constitutions of some states, any one directly or indirectly engaged in a duel is forever disqualified from holding public office.5 REFERENCES & CITATIONS "Fighting a duel, even where there is no fatal result, is of Itself a misdemeanor. (The deliberate killing of another in a duel is not a killing in a heat of passion which will mitigate the crime, however grievous the provocation may have been 2 but evidence of a mutual willingness to fight upon the part of persons, one of whom killed the other in a fight, has been held to authorize an instruction that the offence was murder in the second degree. "When one of the parties is killed, the survivor is guilty of murder.
"It differs from an affray in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design. v"The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, upon a precedent quarrel. The Americans had a great interest in the law of duels and the outlawing of duels as one of the greatest and most consequential of duels was the duel between the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton: The American grand-master of legal definitions in the 1800s, John Bouvier, in his 1914 edition of his Law Dictionary offered this commentary on the law as it then was in the United States. There was a rime, however, such as in the 1700s and 1800s, that disputes between two men was often "resolved" by the two men agreeing to the event of a due, replete with a set of rules of engagement. Duels are now outlawed in most countries, and jurisdiction.