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Assault and Battery.

§ 6494. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel.

§ 6495. 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.

§ 6496. Every person convicted of fighting a duel is there after incapable of holding or being elected or appointed to any office, place or post of trust or emolument, civil or military, under this territory.

§ 6497. Every person who is present at the time when any duel is fought, either as second, aid or surgeon, or who advises or gives any countenance to any duel, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years.

§ 6498. Every person who challenges another to fight a duel; every person who accepts any such challenge; and every person who knowingly forwards, carries or delivers any such challenge, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years.

§ 6499. 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.

§ 6500. 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.

§ 6501. 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.

§ 6502. 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.

§ 6503. Such person may be indicted and tried in any forsow may county within this territory.

§ 6504. No person shall be excused from testifying or Privilege of answering any question upon any investigation or trial for a violation of either of the provisions of this chapter, upon the ground that his testimony might tend to convict him of a crime. But no evidence given upon any examination of a person so testifying shall be received against him in any criminal prosecution or proceeding.