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Compurgation   Listen
noun
Compurgation  n.  
1.
(Law) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
2.
Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. "He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion of incontinency and needed no compurgation."






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