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Record 1 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A fine for adultery or fornication, especially with an unfree woman, anciently paid to the lords of some manors.

OBS

Leyrwite ... was a minor Anglo-Saxon forfeiture; it was one of the few wites that did not disappear in Anglo-Norman England ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Dans l'Angleterre médiévale, amende à verser au seigneur par la femme reconnue coupable d'avoir commis l'adultère ou la fornication.

Spanish

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