英语词汇“wager of law”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wager of law

noun historical

A form of trial in which the defendant was required to produce witnesses who would swear to his or her innocence.Some authorities say that the common law never knew compurgation, as it arose well before the Norman Conquest, but that it did know the wager of law, by which the accused was said to purge himself from guilt....

The early methods of trial were compurgation or trial by ordeal or wager of law.
In early times, it was more common to have wager of law or trial by ordeal.

单词	wager of law
释义	wager of law noun historical A form of trial in which the defendant was required to produce witnesses who would swear to his or her innocence.Some authorities say that the common law never knew compurgation, as it arose well before the Norman Conquest, but that it did know the wager of law, by which the accused was said to purge himself from guilt.... The early methods of trial were compurgation or trial by ordeal or wager of law. In early times, it was more common to have wager of law or trial by ordeal.
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