Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgations
Literary usage of Compurgations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Early English History by William Stubbs (1906)
"If any cause could not, either from the equality of the compurgations or from
the ambiguity of the law, be settled in the ..."
2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1906)
"If he failed in any of his compurgations, he was to be adjudged according to the
law of the land ; that is, he forfeited his franchise and would be appealed ..."
3. Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology by Franklin Henry Giddings (1906)
"In all civilized countries, proof by objective evidence has been substituted for
proof by ordeals and compurgations. ..."
4. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1906)
"If he failed in any of his compurgations, he was to be adjudged according to the
law of the land; that is, he forfeited his franchise and would be appealed ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1903)
"of compositions and compurgations. The Frisian litus may redeem himself from his
modified servitude with his own money ; the freeman may place himself in ..."
6. The Canadian Law Times by Armour, Edward Douglas, 1851-1922, Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Elliott, Charles, Privy Council, Gillis, Edward, Hunter, Alfred Taylour, 1867-1957, Thompson, Bram (1919)
"Innocence was proven and protected by the ordeal, judicial combat, compurgations.
Hence the common people were glad, for centuries, to take refuge in the ..."
7. Of Reformation Touching Church-discipline in England by John Milton (1916)
"... from persons marrying without banns, for compurgations, penances, interdicts,
probating of wills and letters of administration, suits about titles, etc. ..."
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