"Fiscus" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In Spanish law. A duty of a certain per cent, paid to the treasury on the sale or exchange of …

In old French law. A provision of lands or feudal superlorlties as-signed by the kings of France for the maln-tenance …

Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

In Scotch law. A term used to designate the rents paid into the king’s private treasury by the burgesses or …

The treasury of a college or monastery.

The advisory board or coun-cil of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the …

In Spanish law. A treasury. Las Partidas, pt 6, tit. 3, 1, 2

In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge’s cham-ber; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, a …

A room or apartment ln a house. A private repository of money; a treasury. Sometimes used to designate a court, …

In Engllsh law. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a nominal ofiice in the gift of the crown, usually …

In civll and old English law.. To confiscate; to claim for or bring into the fisc, or treasury. Bract fol. …

To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to …

The act of confiscating; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

The phrase “covered ln-to tbe treasury,” as used in acts of congress and tbe practice of the United States treasury …

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the …

To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, …

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, …