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assythments

assythments is the plural 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

Questions about assythments

What is assythments the plural of?
Assythments is the plural of assythment.

Words near assythments in the dictionary

  1. assyrtikos
  2. assyth
  3. assythement
  4. assythements
  5. assythment
  6. assythments
  7. ast
  8. ASTA
  9. astable
  10. astacein
  11. astacene

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