Eriach
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the Brehon law. A pecuniary satisfaction or recompense, correspending 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. Comm. 313. The same, probably, with enach, in old Scotch law. Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. "Enach."
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
<A term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulecl or recompense which a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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.