Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
wergild .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) See
weregild .
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- noun Alternative form of
wergeld .
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Examples
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The wehrgeld belongs to the master as a compensation for the loss of his property.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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The slave has no personality, and consequently no wehrgeld [1] peculiar to himself: he is a thing.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Wednesday to sunrise on Monday, nor on any high festival of the Church, and whosoever violated this peace was to pay his fine or wehrgeld, or suffer excommunication.
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The _wehrgeld_ belongs to the master as a compensation for the loss of his property.
What is Property? 1837
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The slave has no personality, and consequently no _wehrgeld_ [59] peculiar to himself: he is a thing.
What is Property? 1837
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_wehrgeld_, for example, or composition for the homicide of a relative, which occupies so large a space in German jurisprudence, formed no part of the family domain, and descended according to rules of succession altogether different.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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