assythment Sc.
(əˈsaɪðmənt)
Forms: 6 assyithment, aphet. sithement, 7 asyth-, 8 assith-, 7– assyth-, assythement.
[f. assythe v. + -ment.]
Satisfaction for an injury done; compensation, reparation, indemnification.
| 1535 Bellendene Cron. Scot. xiv. xi. (Jam.) In sithement of his ransoun. 1597 Acts Sc. Parl. (Jas. I) §46 (title) Anent remissions to be giuen, and assyithment of partie. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Assithment is the same with what, in the English Law, is called Man-Bote. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxi, The amount of an assythment may be recovered out of Ramorny's estate. 1832 Austin Jurispr. xv. (1879) I. 397 By the law of Scotland the wife and family of the slain have still the right to bring a civil action for assythement. |