1) Acquittal
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1) English legal terminology
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Compurgation, also called wager of law, is a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his innocence or non-liability by taking an oath and by getting a required number of persons, typically twelve, to swear they believed the defendant`s oath. From Latin, com = with, purgare = make clean, cleanse, excuse L. com is also a....
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clearing an accused person by means of oaths
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• (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man`s veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. • (v. t.) Exculpation by testimony to one`s veracity or innocence.
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in early English law, method of settling issues of fact by appeal to a type of character witness. Compurgation was practiced until the 16th century ... [4 related articles]
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Where the defendant swears they are not guilty.
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In addition to trial by ordeal, compurgation was the medieval law practice among Christianized Anglo
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Com`pur·ga'tion noun [ Latin
compurgatio , from
compurgare to purify wholly;
com- +
purgare to make pure. See Purge,
transitive verb ]
1. (Law) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -...
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Obs. A person of good birth and reputation could bring two witnesses of good standing, to swear he was telling the truth. Should the accuser bring co-accusers, the defendant had to bring an equal number of compurgators.
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Compurgation was a mode of defence allowed by the Anglo-Saxon law in England, and common to most of the Teutonic tribes. The accused was permitted to call a certain number (usually twelve) of men, called compurgators, who joined their oaths to his in testimony to his innocence. They were persons taken from the neighbourhood, or otherwise known to t...
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an early common-law method of trial in which the defendant is acquitted on the sworn endorsement of a specified number of friends or neighbors.
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