Note 500 — Chapter X · FǼHÐE. WERGYLD.
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The technical term is, to set up the king’s protection, “cyninges munde rǽran.” Eádw. and Guð. § 13. Eádm. ii. § 7. Thorpe, i. 174, 250. This is the engagement of the State that the arbitrament shall be peaceably made, and it at once abrogates all right of feud, and fear of violent revenge.