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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 term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompense which a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of his victim. It corresponded to the Saxon "weregild." See 4 Bl. Comm. 313.

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.