Difference between revisions of "Challenge"

<p> CHALLENGE, n. Literally, a calling, or crying out, the primary sense of many words expressing a demand, as claim. Hence appropriately, </p> 1. A calling upon one to fight in single combat an invitation or summons, verbal or written, to decide a controversy by a duel. Hence the letter containing the summons is also called a challenge. 2. A claim or demand made of a right or supposed right. <p> There must be no challenge of superiority. </p> 3. Among hunters, the opening and crying of hounds at the first finding the scent of their game. 4. In law, an exception to jurors the claim of a party that certain jurors shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause that is, a calling them off. The right of challenge is given both in and criminal trials, for certain causes which are supposed to disqualify a juror to be an impartial judge. The right of challenge extends either to the whole panel or array, or only to particular jurors, called a challenge to the polls. A principal challenge is that which the law allows without cause assigned. A challenge to the favor, is when the party alleges a special cause. In criminal cases, a prisoner may challenge twenty jurors, without assigning a cause. This is called a peremptory challenge. <p> CHALLENGE, VT </p> 1. To call, invite or summon to answer for an offense by single combat, or duel. 2. To call to a contest to invite to a trial as, I challenge a man to prove what he asserts, implying defiance. 3. To accuse to call to answer. 4. To claim as due to demand as a right as, the [[Supreme]] Being challenges our reverence and homage. 5. In law, to call off a juror, or jurors or to demand that jurors shall not sit in trial upon a cause. See the noun. 6. To call to the performance of conditions.

<p> <strong> [[Challenge]] </strong> . To ‘challenge’ in the language of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is to <em> claim </em> , as in Golding’s tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Calvin’s <em> Job </em> , p. 578; ‘Iob neuer went about to challenge such perfection, as to have no sinne in him.’ The word occurs in &nbsp; Exodus 22:9 , in the heading of &nbsp; Isaiah 45 ‘By his omnipotency he challengeth obedience;’ and in &nbsp; Job 3:5 AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] . </p>

<p> '''''chal´enj''''' : Only in &nbsp;Exodus 22:9 , where the King James Version has taken [[Hebrew]] <i> ''''''āmar''''' </i> , "say," in the sense of "claim." the Revised Version (British and American) "whereof one saith, This is it," points more definitely to the idea of identification of the stolen personal property. </p>