Blood guilt

Blood guilt or Bloodguilt may refer to:

• any unlawful killing, see manslaughter
  • murder
• any crime severe enough to be punished by the death penalty
  • crimes falling under high justice in feudal Europe
• Bloodguilt (film)

See also

• Weregild (blood money), paid in atonement for blood guilt
• Blood court (Blutgericht), legal term for "high justice" in the Holy Roman Empire
• Homicide
• Bloodguilt in the Hebrew Bible