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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Sax. [from child, and wite, a fine.] In Saxon law. The right which a lord had of taking a fine of his bondwoman gotten with child without his license. Termes de la ley.

Cowell.

Or, according to some, the fine itself.

Holthouse.