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Compurgation
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from Lat. compurgare, to purify completely), a mode of procedure formerly employed in ecclesiastical courts, and derived from the canon law (compurgatio canonica), by which a clerk who was accused of crime was required to make answers on the oath of himself and a certain number of other clerks (compurgators) who would swear to his character or innocence. The term is more especially applied to a somewhat similar procedure, the old Teutonic or Anglo-Saxon mode of trial by oath-taking or oath-helping (see Jury).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Compurgation'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/compurgation.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Compurgation'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/compurgation.html. 1910.
