Atonement fee, expiation fee

In ancient Israel, a bounty to be paid on the day of atonement. The collection of this fee served primarily to determine the number of Israel’s elect (statistical reason: Exodus 30:11-16); secondarily, it was considered ransom. – In Germanic and Frankish law, a payment that was to be made once or regularly to the surviving dependents in the case of negligent killing – for example, a felled tree crushing a neighbor – also called wergeld, maggeld and Manngeld. – Compulsory levy (compulsory levy) of twenty percent on the assets of Jewish fellow citizens in November 1938 after the murder of the German embassy employee Ernst von Rath in Paris. – The penalty imposed on National Socialists of lesser guilt by a Spruchkammer – committees staffed with laymen that operated in the form of a court between 1946 and 1954. – Today, also the penalty imposed by an arbitration board in the course of disputes in the
Neighborhood law and in minor cases of bodily injury, insult, slander, threat, damage to property and other fines imposed. – See blood money, three-thing money, peace money, army money, tribute, quarter money, satisfaction money.

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