MERCHET

Etymology

Noun

merchet (plural merchets)

(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.

Source: Wiktionary


Mar"chet, Mer"chet, n. Etym: [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.]

Definition: In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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