(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:03:24

Mar"chet (?), Mer"chet (?), n. [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.]

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

 

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