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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMPURGATION (from
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Lat. compurgare, to purify .completely)  , a mode of
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procedure formerly employed in ecclesiastical courts, and derived from the
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canon
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law (compurgatio canonica), by which a clerk who was accused of
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crime was required to make answers on the
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oath of himself and a certain number of other clerks (compurgators) who would swear to his
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character or innocence . The
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term is more especially applied to a somewhat similar procedure, the old
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Teutonic or Anglo-Saxon mode of trial by oath-taking or oath-helping (see
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JURY) .

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