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lah-slit

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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lah-slit, n[?]; -sliht, -slite, es; m; -slitt, e: f.
According to its component parts the word means a breach or violation of the law; in the Laws however it is applied to the fuse payable for the breach, and is used only with reference to the Danes, the corresponding term among the English being wíte
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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
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • Gif preóst fulluhtes forwyrne ðam ðe ðæs þearf sý, gylde wíte mid Englum and mid Denum lahslit, ðæt is twelf óran,

    • 10-13.
  • Gylde swá wífe swá lahslitte [lahslite, MS. B],

    • 2
    • ;
    • Th. i. 168, 3
    • .
  • Gylde lahslitte inne on Deone lage and wíte mid Englum,

    • 7
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    • Th. i. 172, 3
    • .
  • Lahslite,

    • 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 172, 7
    • .
  • Lahslit,

    • 9
    • ;
    • Th. i. 172, 11
    • .
  • Ðonne gilde hé lahsliht,

    • L. N. P. L. 51
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    • 52
    • :
    • 53
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 298
    • ,
    • 9
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    • 12
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    • 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
    • .
  • 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
    • .
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  • lah-slit, n.