Definition of Compurgations

1. compurgation [n] - See also: compurgation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgations

compulsories
compulsorily
compulsoriness
compulsory
compulsory process
compulsory purchase
compunct
compunction
compunctionless
compunctions
compunctious
compunctiously
compunctive
compunctuous
compurgation
compurgations (current term)
compurgator
compurgatorial
compurgators
computabilities
computability
computability logic
computability theory
computable
computable function
computably
computation
computation history
computation tree logic
computational

Literary usage of Compurgations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Early English History by William Stubbs (1906)
"If any cause could not, either from the equality of the compurgations or from the ambiguity of the law, be settled in the ..."

2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1906)
"If he failed in any of his compurgations, he was to be adjudged according to the law of the land ; that is, he forfeited his franchise and would be appealed ..."

3. Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology by Franklin Henry Giddings (1906)
"In all civilized countries, proof by objective evidence has been substituted for proof by ordeals and compurgations. ..."

4. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1906)
"If he failed in any of his compurgations, he was to be adjudged according to the law of the land; that is, he forfeited his franchise and would be appealed ..."

5. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1903)
"of compositions and compurgations. The Frisian litus may redeem himself from his modified servitude with his own money ; the freeman may place himself in ..."

6. The Canadian Law Times by Armour, Edward Douglas, 1851-1922, Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Elliott, Charles, Privy Council, Gillis, Edward, Hunter, Alfred Taylour, 1867-1957, Thompson, Bram (1919)
"Innocence was proven and protected by the ordeal, judicial combat, compurgations. Hence the common people were glad, for centuries, to take refuge in the ..."

7. Of Reformation Touching Church-discipline in England by John Milton (1916)
"... from persons marrying without banns, for compurgations, penances, interdicts, probating of wills and letters of administration, suits about titles, etc. ..."

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