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Definition of Compurgator

Compurgator
Compurgator Com"pur*ga`tor, n. [LL.] One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

Meaning of Compurgator from wikipedia

- into court to swear for the defendant. The oath-helpers were called compurgators, and the wager of law was called compurgation. The wager of law, also...
- the offence of perjury could only be committed by both jurors and by compurgators. With time witnesses began to appear in court they were not so treated...
- time. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863 c. 5 The number of compurgators to prove the compulsion. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863...
- own oath, "untrustworthy men" who required compurgators, and untrustworthy men who cannot find compurgators who must go to the ordeal. One of the laws...
- compurgation. If the defendant swore an oath to his innocence and found twelve compurgators to swear likewise to their belief that the accused was innocent, he was...
- the two stages of law. In the wager of law the defendant, with eleven compurgators, appeared in court, and the defendant swore that he did not owe the debt...
- take an oath that the prin****l's oath could be trusted. The number of compurgators required depended on the nature of the case. The judge or judges would...
- debtor from alleging outlandish conditions in defeasance of the bond. Compurgators were excluded. “Debtors could plead payment without a written acquittance...