Definition

• Wharton, Law Lexicon , 1864, states that this is " a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence, and allied with cer- tain robbers and brigands for protection from the devastations of the latter; ren- dered illegal by 43 Eliz. c. 13. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild. "

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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