Antejuramentum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Saxonlaw. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “prajurumentum,” and “juramentum calumnie,”) which both the accuser and aecused were required to make before any trial or purgation; the accuser swearing that he would prosecute the criminal, and the accused making oath on the very cay that he was to undergo the ordeal that he was inno-