Dueling

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seventeen fifty-seven until seventeen ninety-one. It was an understanding to the Irish people that a young man was not an adult or educated until he had had a duel with one of his colleagues (Cochran 14-15).
in the South and Ireland had a lot of commonalties along with a few differences in law. One would first want to look at the law of the Irish duello and compare it to that of the Southern version. One of the causes of the duel in Ireland was that a punch or a "blow with the fist" was considered to be not worthy of the actions of a gentleman. In other words if you threw a punch and hit someone and they did not return the blow then they considered themselves to be of high class than you. Although this could transcend into a full-fledged duel. Another way a duel could break loose was if an insult was given, and I mean an insult of an insult of any sort. If an insult was received from a person, the rule stated that the person must beg that person for forgiveness. If this ...

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would then chose from the remaining two the one to be used (Cochran 19). As one will later be able to understand that the Irish laws were the cornerstone of the laws of the fights of Southern gentlemen.
One will be able to see the similarities of the Old Irish rules of and that of the old South. The Southern Code of Duello was written by the governor of South Carolina in 1838(Cochran 19). A difference in the minds of the two different areas was evident in the rule on the blow to the face. Remember that in Irish law it was disapproved to strike back a person in the same manner. In southern law it stated that a blow "was to be returned with one of a serious nature" ...

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