† kinbootn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A wergild or man-boot paid by a homicide to the kin of the person slain. (Not the same as the Old English cynebót or royal compensation.)
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man-botea1000
bloodwitelOE
manworthlOE
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kinbootc1425
eric1587
were1607
blood-fine1818
blood money1826
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 2282 For a yhwman twelf markis ay Þe slaare suld for kynbwt pay.
1478 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 9/1 Þt walter blare sall..pay to Robert of Cargill..xxv mercis..for a kynbute.
1606 Ld. Roxburgh in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. iii. 32 [He then..offers a sum of money..for] kinbut and satisfaction.
1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxv. 328 He shall be free on payment of twenty-four merks of Kinbot.]
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