Wergelt

vergelt. In old Scots a compensation or satisfaction gild.; the path or road over which such the right of a man and his heirs, or of a certain class of persons, to pass — a kind of easement. A way, reprivate, — public, when it is a lawful the great roads that lead from town place to another; private, when esof particular persons, a way, for inway to the house of a private person. to which a tenant for years is somewhich will not ripen until after the law. That which no one claims; a part of a country. constructed for taking fish, by so narpassage may be easily closed by a net. law. A customary service which doing other harvest duties. pledge. Widow; a widow. "Weduesfemmes: waif. use. days' duration; a period, more parmorning and ending at midnight of the out of use, resembling the ancient conveyance redeemable at any time, on profits in the meantime to be received interest., and old English law. The price or by a murderer to the family or relalaw. A robber who might be ransomed., sax.

In Saxon law. Payment of a and old English law. Purgation of oath of other persons, according to person accused. law. A sum paid by an offender, as for the offense; a weregild, or wer-

The Scotch form of the word weregild, g. v.