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Definition of Compurgation
1. n. 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.
Definition of Compurgation
1. Noun. (obsolete legal) A form of trial in which the defendant took an oath of his innocence and summoned twelve people to swear that they believed him ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compurgation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgation
Literary usage of Compurgation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"With the word " compurgation," therefore, we must for the present rest satisfied
... This is " oath-helping " or " compurgation ". This swearing process is, ..."
2. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"With the word "compurgation," therefore, we must for the present rest satisfied.
... This is " oath-helping " or " compurgation ". This swearing process is, ..."
3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"The following were the chief ways known to English law:— (i) compurgation or Law
Wager.* If the defendant will deny the charge on oath in a set form of ..."
4. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"In some cases—in charges of immorality, of theft or fraud, and even in actions
of debt— the extraordinary system of compurgation, everywhere employed by the ..."
5. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"... Hickes to that ancient usage of compurgation, where the accused sustained his
own oath by those of a number of his friends, who pledged their knowledge, ..."
6. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... in what he had sworn regarding the matter. (B.) By the Lord, the oath which N.
has sworn is clean and without falsehood. compurgation OF THE BROTHERS OF ..."
7. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"compurgation ; Ordeal; Judicial Combat. — When a man, in a trial, ... This form
of trial was compurgation. b. Sometimes the trial was by ordeal. ..."
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