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A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

Fertile. See Battel, a. [Obs.]

ther. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n. Burrill. -- To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.

That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. Wager of battel, or Wager of battle (O. Eng. Law), the giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who,…