STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- No battleaxes.

No lances.

No crossbows.

A justice has denied lawyer Richard A. Luthmann's bid to resolve two lawsuits with a trial by combat, ruling instead the cases would be settled bloodlessly in court.

"The matter shall ultimately be decided by trial by jury or judge," wrote state Supreme Court Justice Philip G. Minardo in a one-page decision.

The judge, nonetheless, agreed with Luthmann on one point - that the power to sanction or deny trial by combat "resides within the (state) Supreme Court."

Trial by combat - a fight to the death by the disputants or their stand-ins - was never outlawed in the United States or in New York, contends Luthmann.

He said he has filed a notice to appeal the judge's ruling to a state appellate court and also intends to move to re-argue the case before Minardo.

"My whole point is that it's a more ancient form (to settle a legal dispute) and that it would trump a trial by jury or judge," said Luthmann, an admitted fan of "Game of Thrones," the smash HBO series based on the George R.R. Martin books in which three disputes have been settled in five seasons through bloody trials by combat.

"I believe that the court's ruling is based upon my adversaries' unequivocal statement that they would not fight me," said Luthmann, who's based in Castleton Corners. "Under my reading of the law, the other side has forfeited because they have not met the call of battle. They have declared themselves as cowards in the face of my honorable challenge, and I should go to inquest on my claims."

The attorney has said he requested the lethal showdown to highlight what he perceives are ludicrous allegations against him.

He insists the request is not a publicity stunt.

In 2014, Luthmann was sued in state Supreme Court, St. George, by four men who allege he helped his client, David Parker, fraudulently transfer assets while Parker was embroiled in a dispute over more than $500,000 he allegedly owed the plaintiffs.

Luthmann proposed resolving the lawsuit with trial by combat, then fired back last year by suing those plaintiffs and their lawyer, Richard Chusid.

Luthmann also sought to resolve that suit through trial by combat or "judicially-sanctioned duel," or, in the alternative, $6 million in compensatory or punitive damages.

The two suits have been consolidated and are proceeding ahead; Minardo has denied motions to dismiss them.

Reached by phone Monday, Chusid declined comment.

Luthmann, meanwhile, is at the center of another headlines-making legal battle on a different front.

Late last year, he wrote a Brooklyn federal court judge saying he thought mobsters might have been after him and John Gulino, chairman of the Staten Island Democratic Party, may have knowledge of such actions.

Luthman wrote the letter to Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in November to explain his tardiness in submitting motion papers in a $20 million discrimination suit brought by his client, Lawrence Gilder, against Gulino and others.

Luthmann has failed in attempts to remove Gulino from power.

Gulino's lawyer has flatly denied the allegations, calling them "baseless."

The case is pending.