Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
wergild
Hist. The fixed value of a person's life, being the amount that a homicide's kindred must pay to the kindred of the slain person so as to avoid a blood feud. - Also spelled wergeld; weregild; wehrgeld. See EFFUSIO SANGUINIS; LEODES.