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Eriach

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompense which a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of his victim. It corresponded to the Saxon "weregild."

See 4 Bl. Comm. 313.