compurgation 的定义
- 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.
compurgation 近义词
等同于 absolution
compurgation 的近义词 7 个
等同于 vindication
compurgation 的近义词 6 个
compurgation 的反义词 5 个
更多compurgation例句
- 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.