money received in exchange for murder; ransom
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Blood money Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
blood money
\blood" mon`ey\ (&?;).
1. money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
2. money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
blood money
n
1. compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
2. a reward for information about a murderer
3. paid to a hired murderer
money paid to the relative of a murdered person, dirty money The widow refused to take blood money from the men who murdered her husband.
money paid to the relative of a murdered person
The widow refused to take blood money from the men who murdered her husband.
The widow refused to take blood money from the men who murdered her husband.
Noun
1. compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
(hypernym) compensation
2. a reward for information about a murderer
(hypernym) reward
3. paid to a hired murderer
(hypernym) payment
Blood money Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Blood money may refer to:
- Blood money (term), money paid to the next of kin of a murder victim as a fine
- Thirty pieces of silver, in The New Testament, the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
- Blood money, in English criminal law, the term applied to rewards offered by statute (statutes of 4 and 5 William and Mary, cap. 8) to informers against highway robbers, thieves, burglars, and utterers of false coin or forged bank notes. The so-called 'Blood Money Act' was repealed on 13 June 1818 (Conviction of Offenders Rewards Act, 58 Geo. III, cap. 70).
- Weregild, in English history, reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death
- Blood-money, the money earned for contract killing
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