Bloodwite

Blood´wite`


n.1.(Anc. Law) A fine or amercement paid as part of a settlement for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(72) The Statutory Charter of the Novgorod Prince Sviatoslav Ol'govich provided the Novgorodian archbishop with incomes from bloodwite payments in the Onega lands and incomes of 37 sorochki (a sorochka or sorok was a bundle of 40 luxury furs, i.e., sables and martens), or 1,500 luxury furs per year from 24 districts, as well as payments from the salt trade and monetary payments of 36 grivny and 20 kuny.
Secular power and the archbishops of Novgorod before the Muscovite conquest
(12) The "archaic phase" of legal history is also characterized by composition (bloodwite) and dyadic justice (no judicial officials).
Muscovite judicial duels as a legal fiction
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