Lah-ceáp

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lah-ceáp

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -cóp, es; Related words: lah. lah-ceap

Definitions

1 lah-ceáp

m. Payment made for re-entry into legal rights which have been lost; redemptio privilegiorum quæ per utlagationem fuerint amissa :-- Lahceáp, L. N. P. L. 67: Th. ii. 302, 5. Lahcóp, L. Eth. iii. 3; Th. i. 244, 1. In the note on the latter passage an illustration is quoted from old Danish Law, where 'bylagh' [town law] being lost under certain conditions after an absence of a year and a day, a man 'bör at köbe sigh thet igen a ny.' The term is found in Old Sleswick Law :-- 'Rex habet quoddam speciale debitum in Sleswick, quod dicitur Læghköp, quo redimitur ibi hereditas [quorundam] morientium.' In the same passage occurs the phrase 'emere lagh.'

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚪᚻ-ᚳᛖᚪᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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