compurgation

But Dr Gascoigne enters his protest in the Chancellors book against the indiscriminate admission of parties to compurgation.

The form of the oath which she was to swear was then communicated to her and the day for the compurgation fixed.

It might give procedural privileges: trial by combat is excluded, and trial by compurgation is secured and regulated.

But experience having shown that this method of trial was tumultuary and uncertain, they corrected it by the idea of compurgation.