Blood money

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

II. Blood money ·- Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life;

— said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

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