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kincogish

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 549 words | Copyright

kincogish (Ir. cin comocuis, ‘the offence of a kinsman’) is a term referring to the liability of a kinsman to pay compensation if an offender has evaded payment or has been unable to pay. Similarly, it was possible to distrain a kinsman if pressure could not be brought on a defendant directly. Because this principle by which kinsmen were contingently liable for each other's offences was strange to Anglo‐Norman settlers, it was known by the Anglicized Irish term ‘kincogish’.

Thomas M. Charles‐Edwards

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