compurgation

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Compurgation and Ordeal.—A new difficulty was introduced when a person who was charged with crime denied his guilt.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Compurgation was abolished in 1440 as its inferiority to trial by witnesses became fully recognized.

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis

Compurgation, kom-pur-gā′shun, n. the custom, in Anglo-Saxon law, of permitting the accused to call in witnesses to prove his innocency, by joining their oaths to his: evidence in favour of the accused: vindication.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Compurgation, evidences of a practice similar to, ix.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

The severest censures of the Church were passed upon those who dared to repeat an unproved accusation after the oaths of Purgation and Compurgation had been taken unchallenged.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir