Blood money may refer to:
- Blood money (term), money paid to the next of kin of a murder victim as a fine
- Thirty pieces of silver, in The New Testament, the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
- Blood money, in English criminal law, the term applied to rewards offered by statute (statutes of 4 and 5 William and Mary, cap. 8) to informers against highway robbers, thieves, burglars, and utterers of false coin or forged bank notes. The so-called 'Blood Money Act' was repealed on 13 June 1818 (Conviction of Offenders Rewards Act, 58 Geo. III, cap. 70).
- Weregild, in English history, reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death
- The money earned for contract killing
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Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or money:
“It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I feel like a boy—and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.”
—Roger Casement (1864–1916)
“I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have much to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.”
—Harriet A. Brown, U.S. inventor and educator. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)