compurgation

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But experience having shown that this method of trial was tumultuary and uncertain, they corrected it by the idea of compurgation.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

There was no trial by compurgation, which was abolished by Henry.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

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

Trial by jury, origin of; by battle; by compurgation.

From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup

The assize ultimately evolved into the jury of verdict, which replaced ordeal, compurgation, and battle as the method of finding the truth.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.