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The proceedings were conducted gravely according to prescribed forms, which were digested into a system of peculiar subtilty and minuteness,--as War in our day is according to an established code, the Laws of War.
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Sumner compares the formal procedures of trial by battle to the structured laws governing modern warfare.
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