1) Penalty 
• (n.) The price of a man`s head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.
Were'gild` noun [ Anglo-Saxon wergild ; wer a man, value set on a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to German wehrgeld . √285. See Were a man, and Geld , noun ] (O. Eng. Law) The price of a man's head; a compensati...
Weregild was the Anglo-Saxon money-value of a man's life. It varied in amount and had to be paid by a murderer to the murdered man's relatives.