trial by compurgation

trial by compurgation
судова компургація (очищення від провини клятвами компургаторів про те, що вони вірять клятві підсудного)

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  • Compurgation — Compurgation, also called wager of law, is a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his innocence or nonliability by taking an oath and by getting a required number of persons, typically twelve, to swear they believed …   Wikipedia

  • Trial by ordeal — is a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. In some cases, the accused were considered innocent only if they survived the test, or if their …   Wikipedia

  • compurgation — /kom peuhr gay sheuhn/, n. an early common law method of trial in which the defendant is acquitted on the sworn endorsement of a specified number of friends or neighbors. [1650 60; < ML compurgation (s. of compurgatio), equiv. to com COM +… …   Universalium

  • compurgation — n. method of trial in which a defendant is acquitted if a specific number of friends and family swear upon the his/her innocence …   English contemporary dictionary

  • compurgation — /ˌkɒmpɜˈgeɪʃən/ (say .komper gayshuhn) noun an early common law method of trial (abolished 1833) in which the defendant was acquitted if a specified number of friends or neighbours would swear to the innocence or veracity of the accused. {Late… …  

  • compurgation — A method of trial used before the thirteenth century whereby a person charged with a crime could be absolved by swearing to innocence and producing a number of other persons willing to swear that they believed the accused s declaration of… …   Black's law dictionary

  • compurgation — A method of trial used before the thirteenth century whereby a person charged with a crime could be absolved by swearing to innocence and producing a number of other persons willing to swear that they believed the accused s declaration of… …   Black's law dictionary

  • compurgation — An ancient forrn of trial, which was also known as wager of law, wherein the defendant could call eleven cornpurgators to swear to their belief in his innocence. 3 Bl Comm 343 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Assize of Clarendon — An English statute of 1166 which provides that persons of bad character should depart from the kingdom, although they had been acquitted on a trial by compurgation …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • to make one's law — To deny under oath a criminal charge or accusation. A litigant was anciently said to make his law when he was successful in a trial by compurgation …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • antejuramentum — ˌantē , tə̇ noun (plural antejuramenta) Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Latin ante + juramentum oath more at jurament : the preliminary oath required of the accuser and accused in a trial by compurgation …   Useful english dictionary

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