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In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility ; deadly feud. The worddesignated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer,which was recognized, among the Teutonic peoples, as justification for vengeancetaken by any one of the former upon any one of the latter.

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