WEREGILD
\wˈe͡əɡɪld], \wˈeəɡɪld], \w_ˈeə__ɡ_ɪ_l_d]\
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The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.
By Oddity Software
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The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.
By Noah Webster.
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This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious personaloffense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for theloss of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin of tlie injured person. Iu the Anglo- Saxonlaws, the amount of compensation varied with the degree or rank of the party slain.Brown.
By Henry Campbell Black
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WERGILD, w[=e]r'gild, n. a composition by which, by the custom of Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and other Teutonic peoples, homicide and other heinous crimes against the person were expiated. [A.S. wergield, from wer, man, gield--gieldan, to pay.]
By Thomas Davidson