Riht-gifu

De acordo com o Dicionário de Inglês Antigo:

riht-gifu

a lawful gift, a gift that is rightfully made. The word occurs in a section of Cnut's laws headed 'De officiis domino debitis', but what was the nature of the obligation to which it is applied is nowhere explained :-- Hláfordes rihtgifu stande ǽfre unáwend, Ll. Th. i. 422, 2 (cf. Hláfordes gifu þe hé on riht áge tó gifanne, 292, 16): ii. 302, 7. riht-gifu