单词 | manbot |
释义 | manbotn. Anglo-Saxon Law. Now historical. A fine to be paid to an overlord as compensation for the killing of a man under his authority. ΚΠ eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) lxx. 118 Æt twyhyndum were mon sceal sellan to monbote xxx scill., æt vihyndum lxxx scill., æt xiihyndum cxx scill. eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) lxxvi. 122 Gif hwa oðres godsunu slea oððe his godfæder, sie sio mægbot & sio manbot gelic. lOE Laws of Edmund I (Rochester) ii. iii. 188 Ic nelle, þæt ænig fyhtewite oðð[e] manbot forgifen sy. lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) iii. lvi. §2. 615 In emendatione hominis occisi, quod dicitur manbote. a1200 Roger of Hoveden Chron. II. 224 Manbote in Denelaga, et de villano et de Scotman, duodecim horas; de liberis autem hominibus tres marcas. 1249 Leges Marchiarum in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 415 Si de occisione hominis appellatus fuerit..respondebit de manbote plenarie. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Bote Ane auld Saxon worde, signifies, Compensation, or Satisfaction: As man-bote, thieft-bote... Ane man-bote is assithment for the slauchter of ane man. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Manbote, signifies a pecuniary compensation for killing a man. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Assithment is the same with what, in the English Law, is called Man-Bote. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. Introd. 35 A number of the more important members of the class had evidently been enrolled in the ranks of the feudal nobility and their manbote was ‘reckoned in gold’. 1961 F. Stenton First Cent. Eng. Feudalism (ed. 2) 30 Although one man may well hold of many lords, the Leges assert that he owes especial obedience to one of them... If he is killed it is this lord who will receive his manbot. 1999 P. Wormald tr. Wergild in Making of Eng. Law I. 376/2 From the day when healsfang is to be paid, within twenty-one days, manbot is to be paid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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