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Webster 1913 Edition
Ungeld
Un-geld′
,Noun.
[Pref.
un-
not + geld
payment.] (Anglo-Sax. Law)
A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him.
Cowell. Burrill.
Definition 2025
ungeld
ungeld
English
Noun
ungeld (plural ungelds)
- (Britain, law, obsolete, Anglo-Saxon law) A person so far out of the protection of the law that no fine has to be paid by anybody who kills him.
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