Assythment

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assythment \As*syth"ment\, n. [From OF. aset, asez, orig.
     meaning enough. See {Assets}.]
     Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots
     law]
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ASSYTHMENT, Scotch law. An indemnification which a criminal is bound to make
  to the party injured or his executors, though the crime itself should be
  extinguished by pardon. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 13.