Talk:Vehm

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Century has lowercase vehme and vehmic (and vehmgericht), but finding enough citations is tricky. - -sche (discuss) 08:42, 7 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Chambers 1908 has "Vehmgericht, also Femgerichte, or simply Vehme, Fehme: pl. Vehmgerichte: n. one of the dread medieval German tribunals, empowered by the emperors to try cases in which the penalty was death and to execute the punishment on the guilty". Equinox 15:00, 24 March 2020 (UTC)Reply