compurgation

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Nay, nay, he freed himself By oath and compurgation from the charge.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

They also introduced a barbarous system of trial, that by compurgation, i.e. exculpation by the oath of the defendant supported by a certain number of cojurantes, and that by ordeal, later called judicium Dei.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various

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 Sumner, William Graham

The difficulties of taking evidence by compurgation increased daily.

From Henry the Second by Green, Mrs. J. R.

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 Robinson, James Harvey