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Wager of law
Meaning
Noun
●
In Law:
The
giving
of
gage
, or
sureties
, by a
defendant
in an
action
of
debt
, that at a certain day
assigned
he would take an
oath
in open court
that he did not
owe
the
debt
, and
at the same time
bring with
him
eleven
compurgators
who would
avow
that they
believed in
their
consciences
that he spoke the truth.
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