WERGILD

By SovConn | April 9, 2013

wergild (w<<schwa>>r-gild).Hist. The fixed value of a person’s life, being the amount that a homicide’s kindred must pay to the kindred of the slain person so as to avoid a blood feud. — Also spelled wergeld; weregild; wehrgeld. See EFFUSIO SANGUINIS; LEODES.
[Blacks Law 8th]

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