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Hude-Geld

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

An acquittance for an assault upon a trespassing servant. Supposed to be a mistake or misprint in Fleta for "hinegeld,." Fleta, lib.

1, c. 47, § 20.

Also the price of one's skin or the money paid by a servant to save himself from a whipping. Du Cange.