Everything about Compurgation totally explained
Compurgation, also called
wager of law, is a defense used primarily in medieval
law. A defendant could establish his innocence or nonliability by taking an oath and by getting a required number of persons, typically twelve, to swear they believed his oath.
Compurgation was found in early
Germanic law, in
Welsh law and in English
ecclesiastical courts until the 17th century. In
common law it was substantially abolished as a defense in felonies by the
Constitutions of Clarendon in
1164. The defense was still permitted in civil actions for debt and vestiges of it survived in
England until its final abolition in 1833.
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