assythment

1. (Scots law, historical) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.Examples: "It may be observed that assythment is not due to the next of kin of a person slain where the offender hath by the exertion of public justice suffered the punishment due to his crime; but whether it can be demanded from the king's donatary where the criminal hath fled from justice and forfeited his movable estate upon a sentence of fugitation, may be doubted."; "I, Fergus and my Heirs and Assignies, against all deadly the foresaid Three Daughs, and the forenamed Land of Ardendraught, with their pertinents, liberties and assythments and other privileges as aforesaid."; "Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances."countablehistoricaluncountable