NOVIGILD

By SovConn | May 23, 2013

novigild (noh-v<<schwa>>-gild), n.[fr. Latin novem “nine” + Anglo-Saxon gid or geld “a payment”] Hist. The money a person must pay for damaging another person’s property, the amount equaling nine times the purchase price of the property damaged.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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