Eriach
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the Irish Brehon law, was a pecuniary satisfaction or recompense, (corresponding in some degree with the weregild of the Saxon law,) which a party guilty of murder was condemned to pay to the wife or child or friends of the deceased.* 4 Bl. Com. 313.