wergild / ˈwɜr gɪld, ˈwɛr- /
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wergild 的定义
n. 名词 noun- money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud.
- the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank.
更多wergild例句
- Within the ceorlisc class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.
- This step is taken when the State compels the parties to enter into an agreement on the basis of the wergild.
- With the institution of wergild the entire matter becomes one of civil law.
- He is thus far a person that he has a small wergild but possibly he is bound to the soil.
- We may have thegns who are nobodys thegns, or else we may have persons entitled to the thegnly wergild who yet are not thegns.