Geburus
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Old English Law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same gaburscript, or village.
Cowell.
GELD (from Sax. gildan; Law Lat. geldum). A payment, tax, tribute.' Laws of Hen. I. c.
2; Charta Edredl Regis apud Ingulfum, c. 81; Mon. Ang. t. 1, pp. 52, 211, 379; t. 2, p.
IGl; Du Cange; Blount. A land tax of so much per hide or carucate.
Maitl. Domesday Book 120.
The compensation for a crime. We find geld added to the word denoting the offence, or the thing injured or destroyed, and the compound taking the meaning of compensation for that offence or the value of that thing.
Capitulare 3, anno 813, cc.
23, 25; Carl Magn. So, wergcld, the compensation for killing a man, or his value; orfgeld the value of cattle; angeld, the value of a single thing; octogeld, the value eight times over, etc. Du Cange, Qeldum.