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Hidgild

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A sum of money paid by a villein or servant to save himself from a whipping. Fleta, lib.

1, c. 47, § 20.