| Between different clans the blood feud is the accepted method of enforcing custom, unless a substitute, the wergeld, is provided. |
| The churl should not have the same wergeld as the thane because he is lowborn. |
| Swearing a false oath or perjury was also punishable by loss of one's hand or half one's wergeld. |
| Violence to a widow or maiden is punishable by payment of one's wergeld. |
| If the fee or wergeld of the burggrave has been adjudged to him in court, it must be paid to him within six weeks. |
| The sums awarded as wergeld were large, and were reckoned according to the slain mans rank. |
