compurgation
Example Sentences
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Though connected with the White-Cap affair by which Alfred lost his eyesight and his life, he proved an alibi, or spasmodic paresis, or something, and, having stood a compurgation and "ordeal" trial, was released.
From Comic History of England by Bill Nye
But experience having shown that this method of trial was tumultuary and uncertain, they corrected it by the idea of compurgation.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
It resembled neither the Roman trial, where the judges made the decision, nor the mediæval compurgation and ordeals, where God was supposed to pronounce the verdict.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
The Arabs, in their efforts to supersede blood revenge, tried compurgation, tribunals, payments in composition, banishment, and arbitration.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
The difficulties of taking evidence by compurgation increased daily.
From Henry the Second by Mrs. J. R. Green
