Fledwite
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A discharge or freedom from amercements where one having been an outlawed fugitive cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord.
Termes de la Ley
The liberty to hold court and take up the amercements for beating and striking.
Cowell.
The fine set on a fugitive as the price of obtaining the king's freedom.
Spelman.