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(from Saxon gildan; Law Lat. geldum). A payment; tax; tribute. Laws Hen. I. c. 2; Charta Edredi Regis apud Ingulfum, c. 81; Mon. Angl. tit. 1, pp. 52, 211, 379; Id. tit, 2, pp. 161-163; Du Cange; Blount. The compensation for a crime. We find geld added to the word denoting the offense, or the thing injured or destroyed, and the compound taking the meaning of compensation for that offense, or the value of that thing. Capitulare 3, Anno 813, cc. 23, 25; Carl. Magn. So, wergeld, the compensation for killing a man, or his value; or f geld, the value of cattle; angeld, the value of a single thing; octogeld, the value eight times over, etc. Du Cange, “Geldum.”
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(from Saxon gildan; Law Lat. geldum). A payment; tax; tribute. Laws Hen. I. c. 2; Charta Edredi Regis apud Ingulfum, c. 81; Mon. Angl. tit. 1, pp. 52, 211, 379; Id. tit, 2, pp. 161-163; Du Cange; Blount. The compensation for a crime. We find geld added to the word denoting the offense, or the thing injured or destroyed, and the compound taking the meaning of compensation for that offense, or the value of that thing. Capitulare 3, Anno 813, cc. 23, 25; Carl. Magn. So, wergeld, the compensation for killing a man, or his value; or f geld, the value of cattle; angeld, the value of a single thing; octogeld, the value eight times over, etc. Du Cange, “Geldum.”
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