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(obsolete) money paid for the support of a barbican
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(Ireland, historical) A tenant that provides food for a household. On Anglo-Norman manors, these workers were servile to their lords.
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(slang) To assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
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A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; seigniorage.
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(historical) a tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax
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Alternative form of Danegeld [(historical) a tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax]
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(law, historical) An amercement imposed for failure to expeditate a dog.
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(historical) In Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.
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(historical, law) the blood money or weregild paid by a murderer to the family of his victim under early Welsh law
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(historical) To tax geld.
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(historical) In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.
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(Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A fine paid in lien of a flogging.
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(historical) A bot or fine paid to the near kinsmen of a slain man as compensation.
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Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
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Alternative form of merchet [(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.]
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(UK, historical) A fine imposed by the Crown on a manor or district in which such a secret killing had been committed.
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(Scotland, historical) A small sum paid to the superior of land.
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(Britain) The amount of money the monarch may use for private or personal expenses
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(criminal law, historical) A man worth six hundred shillings in wergeld.
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(military, historical) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.
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(historical, law) A fine under medieval Welsh law levied on related male landowners when the immediate kin of a murderer proved incapable of paying galanas
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(criminal law, historical) A man worth twelve hundred shillings in wergeld.
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(criminal law, historical) A man worth two hundred shillings in wergeld.
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Alternative form of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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(obsolete or historical) A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
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Alternative form of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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Alternative spelling of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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Alternative spelling of wergeld. [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.
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Alternative spelling of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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Alternative spelling of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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Alternative spelling of wergeld [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.]
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