Relating to the process of compurgation; involving oath-taking to establish innocence or credibility in medieval legal proceedings.
From Medieval Latin 'compurgatorius' derived from 'compurgare'. The '-atory' suffix indicates relation to an action or process.
Compurgatory oaths were so important that breaking one could result in losing a hand or having an ear cut off—making the physical stakes of false oaths very real and creating strong incentives for truthfulness among oath-takers.
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