compurgation
/kom-per-gey-shuhn/US // ˌkɒm pərˈgeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌkɒmpɜːˈɡeɪʃən) //
争吵,叛乱,争论,叛变
Related Words
forgiveness宽恕,赦免,饶恕,恕我直言revenge复仇,报,报复,报仇exoneration开脱罪责,赦免,赦免权,开释mercy怜悯,慈悲,仁慈,怜悯之心exculpation开脱罪责,开脱,脱罪,开脱罪名pardon赦免,赦免书,赦免令,赦免权acquittal无罪释放,无罪开释,宣判无罪,无罪判决release释放,发布,发行,发布会amnesty赦免,大赦,特赦,大赦天下justification理由,理由是,辩解,解释substantiation证实,事实证明,证据,证明mitigating circumstances减轻处罚的情况,减轻处罚的情形,减轻罪责的情况,减轻罪行的情况extenuating circumstances情有可原的情况,情有可原的情形,情有可原的情况下,情有可原的状况
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inabsolution
as invindication
Synonyms
Examples
For civil suits there was a provision against ‘wager of battle,’ and the accused again cleared themselves by compurgation.
But experience having shown that this method of trial was tumultuary and uncertain, they corrected it by the idea of compurgation.
Compurgation was abolished in 1440 as its inferiority to trial by witnesses became fully recognized.
With this assize too a practice which had prevailed from the earliest English times, the practice of "compurgation," passed away.
But the compurgation was now completed, and the Cid was compelled to do homage.
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