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Ceapgild

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Ceapgel.

Sax. [fromceop, a beast, or other chattel, (Lat. merx, peeus, catallum,) and gild, or geld, a payment^ or forfeiture.] The payment or foneiture of a beast; a species of forfeiture anciently imposed in England.

Spelman.

Id, voc. Hundredus, In several of the Lexicons, this word is erroneously written caepgildum,