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an early common-law method of trial in which the defendant is acquitted on the sworn endorsement of a specified number of friends or neighbors.
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Compurgation
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compurgation
in early English law, method of settling issues of fact by appeal to a type of character witness. Compurgation was practiced until the 16th century in criminal matters and into the 19th century in civil matters
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