A thief or other criminal whose ‘wergild’ was paid as a satisfaction for his crime; also elliptical jurisdiction over a thief of this description.
| 单词 | θ174662 |
| 释义 | society > law > legal power > [noun] > specific local rights of jurisdiction (6) wergildthiefc690 A thief or other criminal whose ‘wergild’ was paid as a satisfaction for his crime; also elliptical jurisdiction over a thief of this description. forestallc1000 In Old English; an ambush, plot; an intercepting, waylaying, rescue. Hence in Law, the offence of waylaying or ‘intercepting in the highway’… infangthief1020 Jurisdiction over a thief apprehended within the manor or territorial limits to which the privilege was attached; the right of the lord of a… outfangthieflOE The right of a lord of a private jurisdiction, more extensive than that of infangthief (see infangthief, n.), to claim for trial a thief, esp… infangc1550 = infangthief, n. outfangc1550 = outfangthief, n. |
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