blood price
Compensation for killing
Blood price is compensation paid to the family of someone who has been killed, a practice rooted in ancient legal systems where payment could settle a blood feud or avert vengeance.
The term appears in historical and fantasy contexts: The chieftain demanded a blood price for his slain brother.
More broadly, it refers to the human cost of any undertaking—the lives lost to achieve a goal: The blood price of the invasion was staggering.
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- debtMoney owed another
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
recompense · reckoning · sworn enemy · sacrifice · compensation · murder · kin · clan · oath · justice · ransom · tribute · settlement · slain · avenge · restitution · guilt · reparation
- blood lorebloodletting, ritual purity, animal sacrifice, purification rites, purification rituals
- magical oathsoath, vow, pact, covenant, sacred oath
- Celtic lawBrehon law, Brehon laws, legal texts, dire, lawgivers
blood pricecriminal prosecution
Government's legal action against accused
rule of law · due process · incarceration · legal proceedings · imprisonment
blood priceblood feud
Inherited cycle of retribution
blood vengeance · vendetta · revenge killing · retaliation · eye for an eye
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