单词 | to lie agild |
释义 | > as lemmasto lie agild Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild n.), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild.Quot. lOE1 is from a legal tract probably written (or at least rewritten) by Wulfstan.Quot. lOE2 is a translation of quot. lOE1, and is also cited as an example by Spelman (see quot. 1626). ΚΠ OE Wulfstan Sermo ad Anglos (Nero) (1957) 271 Gif þræl þæne þegen fullice afylle, licge ægylde [OE Corpus Cambr. 201 ægilde] ealre his mægðe. lOE Laws of Edward & Guthrum (Rochester) vi. §7. 132 Gif he gewyrce, þæt hine man afylle, þurh þæt hine man gean Godes ryht oððe þæs cynges geonbyrde, gif man þæt gesoðige, licge ægylde. lOE Quadripartitus (Domitian) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 133 Et si efficiat, ut occidatur, pro eo quod contra Dei rectum et regis imperium stet, si hoc inueritetur, iaceat ægylde [lOE Macro egilde, c1200 Titus ægilde]. c1210 ( Leges Hen. I lxxxviii. §5 in L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi (1972) 270 Si quis alium fugiens..precipitio uel casu aliquo moriatur, reddat eum qui iniuste perfugabat, nec sibi mortem intulisse nec egilde meruisse uideatur. 1626 H. Spelman Archaeologus 26/1 Agild, Saxonicum ægild al. orgild; id est insolutus, sine compensatione. 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. C2/1 Agild, free from penalty, not subject to the Custumary Fine or Imposition. 1850 A. M. Burrill New Law Dict. I. 53/1 Agild,..In Saxon law. Free from penalty,..not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild, that is, the customary fine or pecuniary compensation for an offence. 1898 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law (ed. 2) I. ii. 49 It was no offence to the king to kill his enemy, and the kindred might not claim the wergild [footnote..the outlaw, if slain, shall lie ǽgylde, the exact equivalent of the Homeric νήποινος]. < as lemmas |
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