If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation. Defence lawyers have still not agreed to terms for payment of blood money to the victims' families
paid to a hired murderer a reward for information about a murderer compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser