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Fiscus, a wicker basket, or pannier, in which the Romans were accustomed to keep and carry about large sums of money (Cic. 1 Verr. C. viii.; Ph'dr. Fab. Ii. 7), hence any treasure or money chest.The treasury of a monarch (as the repository of forfeited property) a noble, or any private person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 650.The importance of the imperial fiscus led to the appropriating the name to that property which the C'sar claimed as C'sar, and 'fiscus' without any adjunct, was so used (Juv. Sat. iv. 54). Ultimately the word came to signify, generally, the property of the State, the C'sar having concentrated in himself all the sovereign power; thus the word had finally the signification of 'rarium in the Republican period. It does not appear at what time the 'rarium was merged in the fiscus, though the distinction continued to the time of Hadrian. In the latter periods the words were used indiscriminately, to mean the imperial, which was the only public, chest, Smith's Di...
A Erarium
A Erarium, the State Treasury of Rome. Under the Emperors the 'rarium as the public treasure was distinguished from the fiscus, the privy purse of the emperor, See FISCUS....
fiscal
fiscal [Latin fiscalis, from fiscus basket, treasury] 1 : of or relating to taxation, public revenues, or public debt [ policy] 2 : of or relating to financial matters fis·cal·ly adv ...
Bona confiscata
Bona confiscata, property forfeited for crime to the fiscus, or public treasury....
Bona waviata
Bona forisfacta, goods forfeited; called by the civilians bona confiscata, because they belonged to the fiscus, or imperial treasury...
Fidei-commissum
Fidei-commissum, a testamentary disposition, by which a person who gives a thing to another imposes on him the obligation of transferring it to a third person. The obligation wass not created bywords of legal binding force (civilia verba), but by words of request (precative), such as 'fidei committo,' 'peto,' 'volo dari,' and the like, which were the operative words (verba utilia). If the object of the fidei-commissum was the h'reditas, the whole or a part, it was called fidei-commissaria h'reditas, which is equivalent to a universal fidei-commissum; if it was a single thing, or a sum of money, it was called fidei-commissum singul' rei. The obligation to transfer the former could only be imposed on the heirs; the obligation of transferring the latter might be imposed on a legatee. It appears that there were no legal means of enforcing the due discharge of the trust called fidei-commissum till the time of Augustus, who gave the consuls jurisdiction in the fidei-commissa. Fidei-commissa ...
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