Legal Definition and Related Resources of Geld
Meaning of Geld
(from Saxon gildan; Law Lat. geldum). A payment; tax; tribute. Laws Hen. I. c. 2; Charta Edredi Regis apud Ingulfum, c. 81; Mon. Angl. tit. 1, pp. 52, 211, 379; Id. tit, 2, pp. 161-163; Du Cange; Blount. The compensation for a crime. We find geld added to the word denoting the offense, or the thing injured or destroyed, and the compound taking the meaning of compensation for that offense, or the value of that thing. Capitulare 3, Anno 813, cc. 23, 25; Carl. Magn. So, wergeld, the compensation for killing a man, or his value; or f geld, the value of cattle; angeld, the value of a single thing; octogeld, the value eight times over, etc. Du Cange, “Geldum.”
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Geld
(You may find geld at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
royal tax in medieval England, c. 1600, as a historical term, from Medieval Latin geldum, from Old English gield “payment, tax, tribute, compensation,” from Proto-Germanic *geldam “payment” (source also of Middle High German gelt “payment, contribution,” German geld “money,” Old Norse gjald “payment,” Gothic gild “tribute, tax”), from PIE root *gheldh- “to pay” (see yield (verb)).
What is Geld?
A definition of geld is: In Saxon law (for more information on the <a href="https: //lawi. More details on the Encyclopedia.org. More details on the Encyclopedia.uk/saxon-law/”>Saxon legal system and its history, visit the UK legal encycopedia), money or tribute. More details on the Encyclopedia. A mulct, compensation, value, price. More details on the Encyclopedia. Angeld was the single value of a thing; twigeld, double value, etc. More details on the Encyclopedia. So, were geld was the value of a man slain; orfgeld, that of a beast. More details on the Encyclopedia. A land tax of so much per hide or carucate. More details on the Encyclopedia. The compensation for a crime.[1]
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- “Geld” in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)
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