Legal Opinion
In Re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 15, 2004No. 00 Civ.2843(LAK)PublishedCited by 205 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION (Corrected)
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Among the antecedents of our modern jury trial was wager of law, or compurgation, a form of trial by ordeal. The accused found a number of people and then took a solemn oath that he or she was innocent. The “companions, or ‘compurga-tors’ as they were called, then swore that the oath which he [or she] had taken was clean. In other words, the court call[ed] upon the accused to produce a specified number of people ... who [we]re prepared to swear that in their opinion his [or her] oath [wa]s trustworthy. * * * They d[id] not swear to the…
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