The use of chance-medley
chance-medley 2: haphazardness <abandoning himeself to the chance-medley of carnival revelry>
It's one of definitions from Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
Is it better to use 'haphazardness' rather than 'chance-medley' in that context these days?
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org/wiki/Chance_medley (from the Anglo-French chance-medlee , a mixed chance) is a term from English law used to describe a homicide arising from a sudden quarrel or fight. In other words, the term describes "the casual killing of a man, not altogether without the killer's fault, though without an evil intent; homicide by misadventure". The term distinguishes a killing that lacks malice aforethought necessary for murder, on the one hand, and pure accident on the other.
- org/wiki/Chance_medley (from the Anglo-French chance-medlee , a mixed chance) is a term from English law used to describe a homicide arising from a sudden quarrel or fight.
- In other words, the term describes "the casual killing of a man, not altogether without the killer's fault, though without an evil intent; homicide by misadventure".
- The term distinguishes a killing that lacks malice aforethought necessary for murder, on the one hand, and pure accident on the other.
- In the US, the legal term is involuntary manslaughter.
- I have never seen the term "chance medley" used.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_medley (from the Anglo-French chance-medlee, a mixed chance) is a term from English law used to describe a homicide arising from a sudden quarrel or fight. In other words, the term describes "the
0Is it better to use 'haphazardness' rather than 'chance-medley' in that context these days?
In my opinion, yes. There are three reasons for this.
1. I have never heard the word before I read your post.
2. The first meaning (and the only meaning in some dictionaries) is "accidental homicide not entirely without fault of the killer bu
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