English

Alternative forms

• manbot

Noun

manbote ‎(plural manbotes or manboten)

1. (law, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.

   Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote, was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal. — John Lingard, A History of England, 1688.

   If a man was slain a special manbot, or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme: Maegbot, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)

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