Manbote

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

  Manbote \Man"bote`\, n. [AS. man man, vassal + b[=o]t
     recompense.] (Anglo-Saxon Law)
     A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing
     his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). --Spelman.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  MANBOTE. In a barbarous age, when impunity could be purchased with money, 
  the compensation which was paid for homicide was called manbote.