were gild

were gild (plural were gilds)

1. Alternative form of wergeld
   • 1912, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Popular Law-making, →ISBN:

     But these modern statutes in Ohio and the Southern States, making towns responsible in a definite sum to the kin of a murdered man, are the exact re-enactment of the early Anglo-Saxon law; except that the blood damages -- the were gild--- were in those days put upon the neighbors or the kin of the enemy.