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REWARD , recompense, a See also:

gift or See also:payment in return for services rendered. " Reward " and " regard " are forms of the same word. Old See also:French, from which both words came into See also:English, also had rewarder and regarder (the latter See also:form only surviving in See also:modern French), from re-, back, in return, and warder, garder, to See also:watch, protect—ultimately a See also:Teutonic word, from the See also:base See also:war-, to defend; cf. " See also:ward " and " guard," which are thus also doublets. In See also:early use in English, " re-ward " and " regard " were interchangeable in meaning; thus in Piers Plowman, xi. 129, " Reson See also:rod forth and tok reward of no See also:man," cf. " The towne doth receave . . . an annuall regard for the same " (a 16th-See also:century reference quoted by the New English See also:Dictionary from R. See also:Willis and J. W. See also:Clark, Archit. Hist. of Univ. of See also:Cambridge, 1886).

In use the words are now distinct, " regard " being restricted to such meanings as See also:

attention, respect, esteem, See also:consideration. In English See also:law the offering of rewards presents two distinct aspects: (I) with reference to the nature of the See also:information or See also:act for the giving or doing whereof the reward is offered; (2) with reference to the nature of the relation created between the See also:person offering and the person claiming the reward. I. Courts of See also:assize and See also:quarter sessions are empowered to See also:order the payment of rewards to persons who have been active in or towards the See also:apprehension of persons charged with certain specified crimes against person and See also:property (Criminal Law, 1826, ss. 28, 29; Criminal See also:Justice See also:Administration Act 1851, ss. 7, 8). The rewards are payable according to a See also:scale fixed by the See also:home secretary. In the See also:case of courts of quarter sessions the maximum is £5. Courts of assize may See also:award a larger sum where extraordinary courage and See also:diligence have been shown towards the apprehension. The sums awarded are paid out of the See also:rate or fund chargeable with the See also:costs of assizes and sessions. It is illegal to advertise for the recovery of stolen property (including See also:dogs) on terms of not asking questions (See also:Larceny Act 1861, s. 102;• Larceny Advertisements Acts 1870, s.

3). The advertiser and the newspaper which publishes it incur a See also:

penalty of L5o. (See Mirams v. Our Dogs See also:Publishing Co., 1901, 2 K.B. 564.) It is a criminal offence at See also:common law to offer any reward on terms leading to compounding a See also:felony or sheltering the offender (R. v. See also:Burgess, 1886, 16 Q.B.D. 141), and under the Larceny Act 1861 (ss. 2o, lox) it is criminal to accept a reward for recovery of stolen property without bringing the thief to justice. 2.

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