D, or WERGILD. This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious per-sonal ofTense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for the loss of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin of the Injured person. In the Anglo* Saxon laws, the amount of compensation varied with the degree or rank of the party slain. Brown
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
