Rep Silver - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rep silverRep-silver
Rep-silver, money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, to be quit of the duty of reaping his corn....
Rep silver
Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain...
Silver certificate
A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount payable to the bearer on demand In the United States and its possessions it is issued against the deposit of silver coin and is not legal tender but is receivable for customs taxes and all public dues In the United States the redeemability in silver of silver certificates was discontinued in the 1970s they are still 1997 accepted as money at the face dollar value but cannot be redeemed in silver...
Free silver
The free coinage of silver often specif the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold as at the ratio of 16 to 1 which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively...
Silvering
The art or process of covering metals wood paper glass etc with a thin film of metallic silver or a substance resembling silver also the firm do laid on as the silvering of a glass speculum...
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver, a small rent or sum of money paid in some manors to excuse the freeholders' appearance at the courts of their lord....
Green silver
Green silver, a feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a halfpenny yearly to the lord, by the name of 'green silver', Jac. Law Dict....
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rep. 1 report, reporter 2 representative 3 republic ...
Qui per fraudem agit, frustra agit (2 Rol. Rep 17)
Qui per fraudem agit, frustra agit (2 Rol. Rep 17), What a man does fraudulently, he does in vain....
Silver
A soft white metallic element sonorous ductile very malleable and capable of a high degree of polish It is found native and also combined with sulphur arsenic antimony chlorine etc in the minerals argentite proustite pyrargyrite ceragyrite etc Silver is one of the ldquonoblerdquo metals so called not being easily oxidized and is used for coin jewelry plate and a great variety of articles Symbol Ag Argentum Atomic weight 1077 Specific gravity 105...
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