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Webster 1913 Edition
Weregild
Were′gildˊ
,Noun.
[AS. ]
wergild
; wer
a man, value set on a man’s life + gild
payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld
. √285. See Were
a man, and Geld
, Noun.
(O. Eng. Law)
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.
[Written also
weregeld
, weregelt
, etc.] Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Weregild
WEREGILD
,Noun.