Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, an indemnification due from a person guilty of murder to the heirs of the person murdered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Chiefly in Scots law Indemnification for injury; satisfaction.
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- noun
indemnification forinjury ;satisfaction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley 2004
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
The Waverley 1877
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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The matter may be therefore redeemed for money, and the amount of an assythment may be recovered out of Ramorny’s estate.”
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The matter may be therefore redeemed for money, and the amount of an assythment may be recovered out of Ramorny's estate. "
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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