WERGILDS
- the value set in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law upon human life in accordance with rank and paid as compensation to the kindred or lord of a slain person
- WERGILD, wergeld (a price paid for the taking of a man's life in Anglo-Saxon law) [n]
- WERGILD, a price paid for taking a man's life, also WEREGILD, WERGELD, WERGELT [n]