ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMPURGATION
From Medieval Latin compurgātiō, from Latin compurgāre to purify entirely, from com- (intensive) + purgāre to purge.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPURGATION»
Discover the use of
compurgation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
compurgation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Dearest Birth Right of the People of England: The Jury ...
This requirement would reduce the likelihood of false compurgation for two
reasons. On the one hand, if the compurgation failed for lack of the full number of
compurgators, those who had sworn would stand convicted of perjury and would
...
John W. Cairns, Grant McLeod, 2002
2
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1985
The Frenchman was, therefore, allowed to adopt a Norman mode of
compurgation, but only if his English accuser chose not to exercise his royally
conceded claim to prosecute his charge using another Norman type of procedure
. The choice ...
R. Allen Brown, Reginald Allen Brown, 1986
Castelnau demands the duel in 1484, 186 Castile, privilege of nobles in, 22re.
compurgation in, 71 and Navarre, champions of, 115 Catalonia, restrictions on
duel in, 112 Catherine II., her efforts to abolish torture, 452 Cautinus, eucharistic ...
4
The ius commune in England : Four Studies: Four Studies
That its continued use in sixteenth-century Spain should have been regarded as
a cause for remark shows how suspect compurgation had become as an ordinary
part of criminal procedure.160 England was also something of a special case.
R. H. Helmholz Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law University of Chicago, 2001
5
Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England
swearer.89 In some respects, compurgation was well suited to function as a
response to presentment, a sworn accusation made by people from the area
where the crime occurred, but who were not necessarily direct witnesses of the
act that ...
6
The Staple Court books of Bristol
Law Merchant thus, by treating the Secta as actual witnesses and by giving force
to a tally, made it very difficult for a defendant to clear himself by compurgation.
The preventing of compurgation as a defence was of great value to the merchant.
Bristol (England). Staple Court, Edwin Ernest Rich, 1934
7
Ordeals,
Compurgation, Excommunication and Interdict
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
8
A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England
In England, indeed, compurgation was synonymous with the word law itself— to
make (or wage) one's law, facere/vadian suam legem, yager sa. ley, meant to
clear oneself with oath-helpers (or pledge to do so) —and in Normandy, the
Summa ...
Richard Firth Green, 2002
Compurgation was effective because it was a highly regulated and ritualized
procedure relying on close cooperation between secular and religious authorities
. The rituals were very formal, and it was important that the oathhelpers respond ...
Katherine Fischer Drew, 2004
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Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640
achronism at a time when common lawyers had largely eliminated trial by the
analogous secular procedure of wager of law; but the comparison is a misleading
one.25 The use of compurgation in the church courts was largely confined to ...
