compurgation

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It might give procedural privileges: trial by battle is excluded, and trial by compurgation is secured and regulated.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

Very rarely acquittal by compurgation, that is by oath of the accused supported by the oaths of a number of persons that they believed he was telling the truth, was allowed.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Sometimes the court decided offhand, sometimes compurgation was allowed immediately or on the next day, sometimes juries were formed and gave decisions.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts

This form gradually fell into disuse before the more rational form of compurgation introduced into Teutonic courts in the fifth century.

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis

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