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- Weregild - Wikipedia
Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic historical usage of English), weregeld, etc ), also known as man price (blood money), was a tradition in Germanic law whereby a monetary value was established for a person's life, to be paid as a fine or as compensatory damages to the person's family if that person was killed or injured by
- Wergild | Compensation, Feudalism, Retaliation | Britannica
wergild, (Old English: “man payment”), in ancient Germanic law, the amount of compensation paid by a person committing an offense to the injured party or, in case of death, to his family
- WERGILD Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WERGILD is the value set in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law upon human life in accordance with rank and paid as compensation to the kindred or lord of a slain person
- What Is Wergild? | Definition | Nordic Focus
Wergild, the historical Nordic legal practice where a monetary value was set for life and injury, was designed to resolve conflicts
- Wergild - definition of wergild by The Free Dictionary
In Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law, a price set upon a person's life on the basis of rank and paid as compensation by the family of a slayer to the kindred or lord of a slain person to free the culprit of further punishment or obligation and to prevent a blood feud
- What is Wergild? (with picture) - MyLawQuestions
Wergild or weregeld was money paid to compensate victims of crimes in Saxon culture In the case of murder victims, the money was paid to the victim's family or lord By paying wergild, guilty parties could discharge any obligations related to the crime and the matter would be considered settled
- wergild, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
wergild, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- A Lifeʼs Worth: Reexamining Wergild in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Law Codes . . .
Rather than seeing wergild as representing a number of different forms of payment linked together only by the name and sums involved, it is intuitively more likely that the compound represents a more limited and exact concept which could be used, rationally, as we find it in these law codes
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