compurgation
Example Sentences
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Nay, nay, he freed himself By oath and compurgation from the charge.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Very rarely acquittal by compurgation, that is by oath of the accused supported by the oaths of a number of persons that they believed he was telling the truth, was allowed.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
With this assize too a practice which had prevailed from the earliest English times, the practice of "compurgation," passed away.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
Trover gradually supplants detinue, in which there is compurgation.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
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
