Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgators
Literary usage of Compurgators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"Neighbours of the same tithing, city, and ultimately of the same county, gradually
took the pince of kinsmen as compurgators. In Ireland, on the other hand, ..."
2. History of Trial by Jury by William Forsyth (1875)
"These consisted, I, of compurgators, who supported by their oaths the ... Of Ike
compurgators. Amongst the Anglo-Saxons there was what we may call a ..."
3. A History of Continental Criminal Procedure, with Special Reference to France by Adhémar Esmein, René Garraud, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (1913)
"Trial by Battle, Ordeal, compurgators.—The more society rested upon the foundation
of the old ... In regard to compurgators, see Abegg, "Histor. pract. ..."
4. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1904)
"And some say that if the accused be a married man and a tenant of land, then his
compurgators ought to be married men and have lands in the city. ..."
5. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"This was published by Thomas Plant, a Baptist teacher, and one of Thomas Hicks'
former compurgators, and bore (but falsly) the title of a Contest for ..."
6. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"It is needless to clean his memory from the AD 6ii. aspersion of popery, two
eminent acts of his own being his sufficient compurgators : one in setting the ..."
7. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1904)
"Furthermore, even though it be a case of murder, still one ought to acquit oneself
in this same manner. Oath of 36 compurgators.' London Charter, § 3. ..."
8. Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Simon Fraser (1797)
"... by his own oath affirming his innocence. and the oaths of twelve compurgators
as to their belief of it. i HH 383. flood's Civ. L. 669. ..."
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