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Meaning of 'weregild' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Weregild [ n.]
- The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.

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