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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A law was made by Canute, for the preservation of his Danes, that, when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless it could be proved that the person killed was an Englishnnan. This proof was called “@ngieshize.”

1 Hale, P. C. 447; 4 BIL. Comm. 195; Spelman.