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frum-gild

  • noun [ neuter ]
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frum-gild, -gyld, es; n.
A first payment or compensation,—the first payment or instalment of the price [wer] at which every man was valued, according to his degree, to be paid to the kindred, or guild-brethren, of a slain person, as compensation for his murder; prīma compensātio
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  • Gylde man ðæs weres ðæt frumgyld

    let the first payment of the valuation be paid,

    • L. E. G. 12
    • ;
    • Th. i. 174, 28: L. Edm. S. 7
    • ;
    • Th. i. 250, 21.
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