compurgation

How to use compurgation in a sentence

• For civil suits there was a provision against ‘wager of battle,’ and the accused again cleared themselves by compurgation.

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon | Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

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

  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) | Edmund Burke

• compurgation was abolished in 1440 as its inferiority to trial by witnesses became fully recognized.

  Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association | Intercollegiate Peace Association

• With this assize too a practice which had prevailed from the earliest English times, the practice of "compurgation," passed away.

  History of the English People, Volume I (of 8) | John Richard Green

• But the compurgation was now completed, and the Cid was compelled to do homage.

  The History of Chivalry, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Mills