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SECONDS, crim. law. Those persons who assist, direct and support others
engaged in fighting a duel.
2. As they are often much to blame in inciting the duellists to their
rash act, and as they are always assisting in the commission of the crime,
the laws generally punish them with severity but, in consequence of the
false ideas too generally entertained on the subject of honor, the are too
seldom enforced.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.