Pannier - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pannierPannier-man
Pannier-man, one who called the members in the Inns of Court to dinner, etc., and provided mustard, pepper, and vinegar for the hall; whence those who wait at table at the Inns are called 'panniers.'...
Panniered
Bearing panniers...
Dorsel
A pannier...
Dosser
A pannier or basket...
Panier
See Pannier 3...
Pannier
A bread basket also a wicker basket used commonly in pairs for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass...
Panyard
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Ped
A basket a hammer a pannier...
Fiscus
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...
Sportula, or sportella
Sportula, or sportella, a dole or largess either of meat or money given in the time of the Roman Empire by princes or great men to the poor. It was properly the pannier or basket in which the meat was brought, or with which the poor went to beg it, thence the word was transferred to the meat itself, and thence to money sometimes given in lieu of it....
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