Fireplace - Law Dictionary Search Results
Ingle
Flame blaze a fire a fireplace
Manteltree
The lintel of a fireplace when of wood as frequently in early houses
mantlepiece
A shelf that projects from the wall above a fireplace a mantel as in England they call a mantelpiece a chimneypiece
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Chimney-money or Hearth-money
Chimney-money or Hearth-money, a Crown duty for every fireplace in a house, 14 Car. 2, c. 2. It appears to have been a most odious tax (see
Hearth-money
abolished by 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 10. A tax of two shilling levied on every fireplace as England, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 726.
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