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Compurgator
Compurgator, one who by oath justifies another's innocence. The compurgatores mentioned in Anglo-Saxon records have been supposed to be
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Compurgator
One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another See Purgation also Wager of law under Wager
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Compurgatorial
Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation
Conjurator
One who swears or is sworn with others one bound by oath with others a compurgator
Justificators
Justificators, a kind of compurgators, or those who by oath justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of WAGER
Lada
Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway. Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own...
Ley or Loi
Ley or Loi, law; the oath with compurgators; also a meadow.
Manus
oath, from the ceremony of laying the hand on the book; also, the person taking an oath, or compurgator.
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