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Webster 1913 Edition
Merchet
{
, Mar′chet
,Mer′chet
}Noun.
[LL.
marcheta
; of uncertain origin.] In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant’s daughters.
Definition 2024
merchet
merchet
English
Noun
merchet (plural merchets)
- (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.