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Compurgator

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Compurgator, one who by oath justifies another's innocence. The compurgatores mentioned in Anglo-Saxon records have been supposed to be the origin of trial by jury, Comyn's Dig.; Du Cange.

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