[DOC] [TLE] blackmail - Wiktionary [PAR] The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border 
dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment
. This tribute was paid in goods ... From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains 
who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the... [DOC] [TLE] Why Is It Called "Blackmail"? | Yahoo Answers [PAR] Oct 24, 2009 ... The Scottish farmers called both nefarious deals "black" because they ... England 
and Scotland, freebooters extorted payment from farmers of the area in .... the 
word for tribute (in modern terms, protection money) paid by English and ... 
Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. [DOC] [TLE] How was the word BLACKMAIL coined ? - Answerlib [PAR] ... to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This 
tribute was paid in goods or labour (reditus nigri, or "blackmail"); the ... tribute or 
rent paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border freebooters (country 
... called mail from tenants and farmers in return for protection and general 
safety. [DOC] [TLE] Dfinition / Sens du blackmail - EngYes [PAR] This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri "blackmail"; the 
opposite is ... pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and mal (tribute, 
payment). ... + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, 
terms, ... Compare silver mail "rent paid in money" (1590s); buttock-mail (Scottish, 
1530s)... [DOC] [TLE] blackmail - definition and meaning - Wordnik [PAR] from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. n. 
... Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection 
from pillage. ... Ahhh, the first of the blackmail from the Federal government. .... 
This amounted to an informal tax or extra rent and the farmers, with twisted 
humour,... [DOC] [TLE] Definition of blackmail - definitionfinder.com [PAR] In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, 
archipterygium, the .... The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by 
English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity 
from raids and other harassment. ... clan chieftains who ran protection rackets 
against Scottish farmers. [DOC] [TLE] Truth Triumphant - Sabbath Truth [PAR] While the author has used a great number of original sources, he has also 
entered ... The doctrines of the primitive Christian church spread to Ireland, 
Scotland, and Wales. ...... fallen off. Paying splendid tribute to the virtues of the 
Christians, he ...... At the age of sixteen, Patrick was carried captive to Ireland by 
freebooters. [DOC] [TLE] THE CORONATION STONE - Lia Fail - Mysteries of the Bible [PAR] many kings in the history of Ireland, Scotland, and England have been coronated 
... seized upon a favourable opportunity, and put King Refloir to death first. ... ("
History of Ireland From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion," pp.153-156). 
...... in Britain [Scotland], such tribute had been always paid by that principality, 
nor... [DOC] [TLE] The Story of the Law - Online Library of Liberty [PAR] It is the most original book in the English language on comparative law ..... So 
when I reached the English law I did not pay much attention to the ...... since it 
was opposed to the instinct to protect and perpetuate the tribe. ...... The 
occupation by free farmers was by those who hired cattle to be run on a rental of 
one in seven. [DOC] [TLE] Remembering Our Acadian Heritage - Acadian-Cajun Genealogy ... [PAR] At first, these fishermen cleaned the cod aboard ship and stored them ... By 1519, 
the French, the Portuguese, and the English had set up ... in the 1400s in a novel 
by Jacopo Sanazzaro, which opens with a tribute to a grove of .... She paid off the 
Huguenots and bought their Acadian rights, which she .... poverty

Question: Originally, it was a tribute paid by English & Scottish farmers to freebooters for protection from harassment
Answer: blackmail