Ceapgild
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Payment of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture. Cowell; Spelman.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Payment of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture. Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
ceai)g:el, sax. The payment or forfeiture of a beast; a species of forfeiture.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
sax. Payment, or forfeiture, of an animal.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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,