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`1`Wergild, Wergild, Or Weregild `2` "Legal Lexicon":
WERGILD - Obs.Ger. Monetary compensation paid by a murderer to the relatives of the victim.
WERGILD, or WEREGILD, old Eng. law. The price which in a barbarous age, a person guilty of homicide or other enormous offence was required to pay, instead of receiving other punishment. --b-- |