I know there's a word for this but can't remember it. Can someone please help me figure this out.
It also means, amount paid to a king after winning a war by the defeated king.
Thank you 🙂
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I know there's a word for this but can't remember it. Can someone please help me figure this out.
It also means, amount paid to a king after winning a war by the defeated king.
Thank you 🙂
Best Answer
In a modern civil law context, damages:
Also sometimes compensation:
Or restitution:
Occasionally recompense, sometimes as a noun but more often as a verb:
There's also 'making amends' - that's usually used to mean non-financial compensation, although money could be involved.
In the context of war, reparations:
Where state A has conquered state B in the past (or has shown that they are capable of doing so) and state B pays state A 'protection money' not to invade again, that money is called 'danegelt':
It's a pejorative term. Where a losing state is forced to pay money to a winning state, whether this is 'war reparations' or 'danegelt' might depend on your point of view, on whether you belive the amount is proportionate to the actual loses, on which state you believe was the aggressor, etc etc.
(parody)
1066 and All That, Sellar & Yeatman, 1931.