See also:

• COMPURGATION (from Lat. compurgare, to purify .completely)

COMPURGATION (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. compurgare, to purify .completely)  , a mode of See also:

• PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

procedure formerly employed in ecclesiastical courts, and derived from the See also:

• CANON

canon See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law (compurgatio canonica), by which a clerk who was accused of See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime was required to make answers on the See also:

• OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath of himself and a certain number of other clerks (compurgators) who would swear to his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character or innocence . The See also:

• TERM

term is more especially applied to a somewhat similar procedure, the old See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic or Anglo-Saxon mode of trial by oath-taking or oath-helping (see See also:

• JURY

JURY) .