- Compurgation, also
called trial by oath,
wager of law, and oath-helping, was a
defence used
primarily in
medieval law. A
defendant could establish his innocence...
-
Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an
American crime and espionage-thriller
novelist and
former editor-in-chief
of Playbill magazine...
- than a
subsequent promise to pay) he
could have to risk a
wager of law. The
judges of the
Court of the King's
Bench was
prepared to
allow "****umpsit" actions...
- Pascal's
wager is a
philosophical argument advanced by
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century
French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
- conversion.
Trover resolved the old
procedural problem of wager of law which had
developed as a form
of licensed perjury,
which made
detinue unattractive to...
-
wager of law was to be
allowed in an
action for the penalty.
Wager of law was
finally abolished in 18 33 (3 & 4
William IV. c. 42).
Another form
of judicial...
-
Wager Mutiny took
place in 1741,
after the
British warship HMS
Wager was
wrecked on a
desolate island off the
south coast of present-day Chile.
Wager...
- that his
denial of the
claim was true. This was
technically called his "wage
of law" or "
wager of law". It was
enough to
dispose of the plaintiff's claim...
- century.
Wager of law was not used in debt on a covenant.
Wager of law was
abolished by
statute in 1833.
Prosser describes trover and
wager of law in this...
- if
people disputed the
payment of a debt they, and witnesses,
would attend court and
swear oaths (called a
wager of law). They
risked perjury if they lost...
