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assythement

assythement is the alternative form of assythment.

Meaning of assythment

Noun

assythment (countable and uncountable, plural assythments)

  1. (historical, Scots law) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.
    • It may be observed that assythment is not due to the next of kin of a person slain where the offender hath by the exertion of public justice suffered the punishment due to his crime; but whether it can be demanded from the king's donatary where the criminal hath fled from justice and forfeited his...1871, John Erskine, An Institute of the Law of Scotland, volume 2, page 1235

Forms of assythement

pluralassythements

Questions about assythement

What is assythement the alternative form of?
Assythement is the alternative form of assythment.

Words near assythement in the dictionary

  1. Assyro-Babylonians
  2. Assyrogenous
  3. assyrtiko
  4. assyrtikos
  5. assyth
  6. assythement
  7. assythements
  8. assythment
  9. assythments
  10. ast
  11. ASTA

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