10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPURGATORIAL»
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while the ordeal of red-hot iron and compurgatorial oaths are freely alluded to as
means of rebutting accusations, there is no reference whatever to the battle trial,
showing that it was by that time no longer in use.1 Even in Scotland, partial ...
2
Arminius: a history of the German people and of their legal ...
The thirty-first of the chartae regales is a charta paricla, that is — a judgment,
given by a Ccnnt of the palace, wherein a man, charged with theft, had purged
himself by the compurgatorial oath- and called " paricla," because copies of ...
Thomas Smith (F.S.A.), Arminius (prince of the Cherusci.), Francis Smith (rector of Moorby),
1861
3
Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History
In ecclesiastical courts the system was employed down to the 17th century,
though the development of the inquisitorial process in the 13th century deprived it
of most of its characteristic features. I. TWO FORMS OF COMPURGATORIAL
OATH.
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History,
1908
4
Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of ...
In ecclesiastical courts the system was employed down to the 1 7th century,
though the development of the inquisitorial process in the 13th century deprived it
of most of its characteristic features. I. TWO FORMS OF COMPURGATORIAL
OATH.
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History,
1897
It is very obvious, however, from some of the Triads, that the jury spoken of acted
in a compurgatorial capacity rather than as inquisitors or judges. Still, being upon
oath, there was no danger that the ends of justice would be perverted, whilst at ...
6
The Gentleman's Magazine
If we understand Mr. Smith rightly, there is no trace of the compurgatorial oath in
the Assize. Of the judicial combat he gives the following description : " On the
morning of the combat, the viscount and the jury assembled at the utnal place,
and ...
7
Medieval English Nunneries: C.1275 to 1535
One wonders what happened when the man produced compurgators and the
lady failed to do so: for these misdemeanours d deux the compurgatorial system
would seem a little uncertain. If a man's guilt were proven by his failure to provide
...
8
The Diary of the Rev. John Mill: Minister of the Parishes of ...
... is linked with a remarkable episode in Scottish history— the flight of Bothwell.i
The ancient compurgatorial system still prevailing at this time, as exemplified in
the proceedings of this Court in the acquittance by the 'Lawright aithe,' the 'sexter'
...
9
Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature
Innocent III codified this order and thereby cut the ground out from under the
compurgatorial oath. Where the compurgator was previously held to be as guilty
or as innocent as the accused, now he had only to state publicly his conviction
that ...
... legal codes from Germany. The sy-.tem described so far, whether in the realm
of irrational or rational proofs, also possesses a social dimension. In the world of
irrational proofs, those of the judicial combat and the compurgatorial oath ...
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