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wergild
wergild: see composition.
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wergild
Jan 01, 2000; wergild (or “man-price” ) The compensation that had to be paid by a murderer to the kinsmen of the victim in...
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Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Deowwealh: a legal source for the queen's name.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Several scholars have analyzed Wealhtheow's name, and it has become convention to accept that it is a compound meaning "foreign...
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Freedom and Property
Mar 01, 2008; Or should we say, wealth and property, without which there can be no freedom or rule of law. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POLITICAL...
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composition
Nov 12, 2008; composition in ancient and medieval law, a sum of money paid by a guilty party as satisfaction to the family of the person who...
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COLUMN: People should not be valued in dollars
Aug 23, 2004; Matt Clement University Wire 08-23-2004 (The Daily Cougar) (U-WIRE) HOUSTON -- In 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency...
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