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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Inold practice

The formality of denying a plaintiffi’s charge under oath, in open court, with compurgators. One of the ancient methods of trial, frequently, though inaccurately, termed “waging law,” or “wager of law.”

3 Bl. Comm. 341.