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Weregild was a value placed on every human being and every piece
of property in the Salic Code. If property was stolen, or someone was
injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild to the
victim's family or to the owner of the property.
The payment of weregild was an important legal mechanism in early
Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this
time was blood revenge. The payment was typically made to the family
or to the clan.
No distinction was made between murder and manslaughter until these
distinctions were instituted by the Holy Roman imperial law in the
12th century. Payment of the weregild was gradually replaced with
capital punishment, starting around the 9th century, and almost entirely
by the 12th century when it began to cease as a practice throughout the
Holy Roman Empire.
The word weregild is composed of were, meaning "man" (as in werewolf),
and geld, meaning "payment or fee", as in Danegeld. Geld was the Old
English term for money, and still is in Dutch and German. In Danish the
word is gæld and means "debt".
~Wikipedia
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weregild, wergild
(in Anglo-Saxon society) a payment made to the family of a slain man
by his killer or the killer’s family as compensation, atonement, and to
avoid reprisals.
~ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/weregild
of property in the Salic Code. If property was stolen, or someone was
injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild to the
victim's family or to the owner of the property.
Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this
time was blood revenge. The payment was typically made to the family
or to the clan.
distinctions were instituted by the Holy Roman imperial law in the
12th century. Payment of the weregild was gradually replaced with
capital punishment, starting around the 9th century, and almost entirely
by the 12th century when it began to cease as a practice throughout the
Holy Roman Empire.
The word weregild is composed of were, meaning "man" (as in werewolf),
and geld, meaning "payment or fee", as in Danegeld. Geld was the Old
English term for money, and still is in Dutch and German. In Danish the
word is gæld and means "debt".
~Wikipedia
-----------------------------------------------
weregild, wergild
(in Anglo-Saxon society) a payment made to the family of a slain man
by his killer or the killer’s family as compensation, atonement, and to
avoid reprisals.
~ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/weregild
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