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- Compurgation abstract "Compurgation, also called wager of law and oath-helping, was 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 the defendant's oath. From Latin, com = with, purgare = make clean, cleanse, excuse.Latin com is also an intensifier and turns a word into the superlative form, so compurgation, by etymology, means 'to thoroughly clean or excuse'.The wager of law was essentially a character reference, initially by kin and later by neighbours (from the same region as the defendant), often 11 or 12 men, and it was a way to give credibility to the oath of a defendant at a time when a person's oath had more credibility than a written record. It can be compared to legal wager, which is the provision of surety at the beginning of legal action to minimize frivolous litigation.Compurgation was found in early Germanic law, in early French law (très ancienne coutume de Bretagne), in Welsh law, and in the English ecclesiastical courts until the seventeenth century. In common law it was substantially abolished as a defence in felonies by the Constitutions of Clarendon in 1164. The defence was still permitted in civil actions for debt and vestiges of it survived until its statutory repeal at various times in common law countries: in England in 1833, and Queensland at some point before the Queensland Common Practice Act of 1867. which makes direct reference to the abolition of wager of law.\"Wager of Law, obsolete for centuries\" was \"a living fossil... a dead letter statute\" and was repealed in England in 1833.".
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- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Germanic_law.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:1833_disestablishments.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_legal_terms.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Germanic_legal_codes.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Legal_history.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Medieval_English_court_system.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Medieval_law.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Oaths.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Welsh_law.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Common_law.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Constitutions_of_Clarendon.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Contemporary_history.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Ecclesiastical_court.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Felony.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Lawsuit.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Legal_wager.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Magna_Carta.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Oath.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Queensland.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Slades_Case.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Tractatus_of_Glanvill.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Trial_by_combat.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Trial_by_ordeal.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLink Welsh_law.
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLinkText "Compurgation".
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLinkText "Compurgators".
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLinkText "clear his name by their oath".
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLinkText "compurgation".
- Compurgation wikiPageWikiLinkText "confirmation of the good reputation of the defendant by oath".
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- Compurgation subject Category:1833_disestablishments.
- Compurgation subject Category:English_legal_terms.
- Compurgation subject Category:Germanic_legal_codes.
- Compurgation subject Category:Legal_history.
- Compurgation subject Category:Medieval_English_court_system.
- Compurgation subject Category:Medieval_law.
- Compurgation subject Category:Oaths.
- Compurgation subject Category:Welsh_law.
- Compurgation hypernym Defence.
- Compurgation type Convention.
- Compurgation type Organisation.
- Compurgation type Type.
- Compurgation type Convention.
- Compurgation type Disestablishment.
- Compurgation type Field.
- Compurgation type Redirect.
- Compurgation type Statement.
- Compurgation type Term.
- Compurgation type Trial.
- Compurgation type Type.
- Compurgation type Statement.
- Compurgation comment "Compurgation, also called wager of law and oath-helping, was 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 the defendant's oath.".
- Compurgation label "Compurgation".
- Compurgation sameAs Q5157258.
- Compurgation sameAs Compurgación.
- Compurgation sameAs m.09dfv4.
- Compurgation sameAs m.0j28q8f.
- Compurgation sameAs Компургация.
- Compurgation sameAs Compurgation.
- Compurgation sameAs Q5157258.
- Compurgation wasDerivedFrom Compurgation?oldid=705379329.
- Compurgation isPrimaryTopicOf Compurgation.