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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/2013 8:21 PM, Basil wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:51B151C6.9080906@lavabit.com" type="cite"><br>
<blockquote type="cite">Wouldn't dimidiation be treated the same
(for all intents and
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purposes) as marshalling? It was an earlier form of the
practise,
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after all.
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Consider, for example:
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That could not be impaled, but it could be dimidiated. Now
consider SENA A.6.F.1.c and A.6.F.3.c. These say that having a
charge or charges straddle the palar line removes the appearance
of marshalling.
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This looks like dimidiation is being ignored, but I wonder if
that's the intention.<br>
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I don't see your example as dimidiation -- it is a counterchange,
plain and simple. I would assume dimidiation if the 'charge' that
is bisected by the pale line is the left half of one charge and the
right half of a different charge. A good example are the Arms of
Hastings
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Hastings_Emblem_Vectorized.svg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Hastings_Emblem_Vectorized.svg</a>)
where you see two lions passant regardant each dimidiated with a
hulk.<br>
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I still believe that marshalling, impaling and dimidiation are all
the same thing, just done in different eras and cultures -- and
therefore must be treated the same.<br>
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Lord Anthony Hawke; GdS, AA, WOAW<br>
Protégé to his Excellency, Uilliam mac Aillén vhic Séamus, OP<br>
<i>Facta Omnia Gloria Nihil<br>
(The deed is everything. Glory is nothing.)</i><br>
<b>Per fess sable and Or, a sea-tyger maintaining a rapier
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