lah-slit
- noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Beó se wið ðone cyningc hundtwelftig sciłł. scyldig on Engla lage ... and on Dena lage lahslites scyldig,
- L. C. S. 15 ;
- Th. i. 384, 15 .
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Gebéte ðæt be ðæm ðe seó dǽd sý swá be wíte swá be lahslitte [lahslite, MS. B.]
let him make'bot' for that according to what the deed is, either by 'wite' [if English] or by 'lahslit' [if Danish],
- L. E. G. 3 ;
- Th. i. 168, 6 .
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Gif preóst fulluhtes forwyrne ðam ðe ðæs þearf sý, gylde wíte mid Englum and mid Denum lahslit, ðæt is twelf óran,
- 10-13.
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Gylde swá wífe swá lahslitte [lahslite, MS. B],
- 2 ;
- Th. i. 168, 3 .
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Gylde lahslitte inne on Deone lage and wíte mid Englum,
- 7 ;
- Th. i. 172, 3 .
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Lahslite,
- 8 ;
- Th. i. 172, 7 .
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Lahslit,
- 9 ;
- Th. i. 172, 11 .
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Ðonne gilde hé lahsliht,
- L. N. P. L. 51 :
- 52 :
- 53 ;
- Th. ii. 298 ,
- 9 :
- 12 :
- 15 .
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The word is continued in the Laws of William the Conqueror
In Danelahe erit iii forisfactura de suo laslite [laxlite in French],
- Th. i. 483, 24 .
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In Th. i. 168, note a, a passage is quoted from old Swedish law in which 'lagsliht' occurs.
- See also
- Grmm. R. A. 623 :
- Steenstrup's Normannerne, iv. 264 sqq .
Bosworth, Joseph. “lah-slit.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/21063.
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