"Novigild" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for whlch it was paid. Spelman
The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
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An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."
To farm. Derived from an old Saxon word denoting rent Ad flrmam noctis was a fine or penalty equal in …
Read the complete definitionA diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A guest at an lnn, who, haviug stayed there for three nlghts, was then accounted one of …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild; that Is, the customary fine …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. An observer or informer
Read the complete definitionIn old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxon law. one bound by oath, q. …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Alms-fee; nlins-money. otherwise called "Peterpence.” Cowell
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing; a single were-gild; the compensation of a thing …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
Read the complete definitionA Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from …
Read the complete definitionThe language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
Read the complete definitionThe Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.
Read the complete definitionOne of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in …
Read the complete definitionThe Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
Read the complete definitionA characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Read the complete definitionThe quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The rate flx-ed by law at which certain injuries to.per-son or property were to be paid for; …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “pr#juramentum,” and “juramcntum calumni#,”) which both the accuser and ac-cused …
Read the complete definitionA collection of Sax-on laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, iu the Saxon language, with a* Latin version …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A penalty for a wrong done by oue iu the king’s lattice. The offender was to replace …
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