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  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    the As to a Septunx and Semuncia: And ’tis generally thought that it rested here all the Time of the Commonwealth, See Money. This last was called the Papirian As, in regard the Law just mentioned was passed in the Year of Rome 563, by C. Papirius...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPOSALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSAL

    of Sheriffs, is the charging them with Money received on their account in the Exchequer, 22 & 23 Car.2. Act for better Recovery of Fines due to his Majesty. APPOSAL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    the Tribune Cincius procured a law to be passed, called from him, Lex Cincia; where the advocates were forbidden to take any money from their clients. Frederic Brummerus has published an ample comment upon this law. It had before been prohibited for the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • Commercehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce

    COMMERCE, or the Affairs of MERCHANDIZE ; including, Money, Coin, Species &c. as Pound, Crown, Shilling, Penny, Sterling. Ducat, Dollar, Piece of Eight. Talent, Sesterce, Shekel, and the* like. Weights, Libra, Ounce, &c. Measures, Foot, Yard, Standard,...

    • Type: Category

  • Sculpturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/sculpture

    &c. Engraving, Seal, Dye, &c. Etching, Cutting. Mezzo Tinto, &c. Foundery, of Bell, Letter, Ordnance, &c. Coining, Money, Medal, Medallion, &c. Pile, Legend, &c. Lapidary, Turnery, Inlaying, Vaneerlng, Damasqueening, Enchasing, &c.

    • Type: Category

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    Number of Units we tell by Tens, or Sixties, or Hundreds: With the like View on some occasions, we make up certain Sums of Money in Rouleaus, or in Purses, and thus pay and receive 'em without the Trouble of telling or enumerating the Contents. IN this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    A denotes 'em struck by the City Argot. And among the later Coins, the same Letter is the Mark of 'Paris. See MEDAL, COIN, MONEY, &c. Among English Writers, A is ordinarily us'd for Anno, as A. D. Anno Domini ; for Artium, as A. M A. B. &c. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar

  • AGISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGIST

    in Law.—To agist, signifies to take in, and feed, the cattle of strangers, in the King’s forest; and gather the money due for the same. See AGISTOR.The word is also extended to the taking in of other men's cattle, in any man's ground; at a certain rate...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    and behind the Lieutenant-Colonel. See REGIMENT, BATTALION, etc. Aid, Auxilium, in our ancient customs, a subsidy or sum of money due to the Lord, from his tenants, on certain occasions. See SUBSIDY, SERVICE, etc. It differed from a Tax, which is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ALLOYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOY

    METAL, MIXTURE, etc. Such is the Quantity of Copper mingled with Gold, in the Coining of Species of that Metal. See GOLD, MONEY, etc. The Intention of Alloy, is to give the Gold a due hardness, that it may not waste with wearing; and to increase its...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Commerce

  • ASPERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ASPER

    ASPER also signifies a little Turkish Silver Coin, wherein most of the Grand Signior’s Revenues are paid. See Coin and Money. The Asper is worth something more than an English Halfpenny.—The only Impression it bears, is that of the Prince’s Head under...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar

  • ARREARShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREARS

    or Arrearages,the Remains of an Account; or a Sum of Money remaining in the Hands of an Accountant. See ACCOUNT and ACCOUNTANT. The Word is also used more generally for a Remainder of Rents, or Monies unpaid at the due Time; whether they be Rents of a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • CHEVAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVAGE

    or CHIEFAGE, according to Bracton, signifies a Tribute by the Head; or a kind of Poll-Money antiently paid by such as held Lands in Villanage, or otherwise, to their Lords, in acknowledgment. See POLL. The Word seems also to have been us'd for a Sum of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Politics - Policy - Justicehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics

    &c. Their Revenues, Treasury, Fise, Exchequer, Tally, Political Arithmetic. Duties, Customs, Gabel, Excise, &c. Coinage, Money, Interest, Usitry, &c. Their Houshold, Chamber, Green-Cloth, Ward-robe, &c. Under Steward, Chamberlain, Comptroller, Cosferer,...

    • Type: Category

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    used in a Legal Sense, for the assigning, making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing, to assure the Payment of a Sum of Money, or the Discharge of some other Duty or Service.—His Effects were all affected to his Creditors—The Revenues of such a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE

    for Goods; and some for both. We have also Assurances for Life, in Virtue whereof, when the Person assured dies, a Sum of Money becomes payable to the Person in whose Favour the Policy of Assurance was given. See ANNUITY, &c. ASSURANCE, in Logic, See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ALBA Firmahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBA%20Firma

    Firma, or Album, was a yearly Rent, payable to the Chief Lord of a Hundred; so called, Because paid wholly in white Money, or Silver, and not in Corn, which was called Black Mail. ALBA Firma

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOSTOLOCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLOCI

    Encratites, and Cathari in the 2nd Century. They made profession of abstaining from Marriage, and the use of Wine, Flesh, Money, etc. See ENCRATITE, ENCRATITES, etc. The other Branch of Apostolics were of the 12th Century: These also condemned Marriage,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMBIDEXTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBIDEXTER

    Hippocrates observes, that this never happens to Women. In a legal Sense, Ambidexter signifies a Juror, etc., who receives Money of both Parties, for the giving his Verdict, etc., for which he is to forfeit decies tantum, ten times as much as he...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    commerce, is a term used, chiefly in Holland, and at Venice, for the difference between the value of bank-notes, and current money. See BANK. The Agio in Holland is sometimes 3, or even 4 per cent in favor of the bank-notes. See DISCOUNT. Agape, in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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