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Shilling

Shilling [fr. solidus, Lat.; scilling, Sax.] among the English Saxons passed

to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth,

should think fit and necessary' to take affidavits for one shilling fee concerning Common Law actions. The Masters in Chancery were

pledge for 10s. or under. A pledge pawned for ten shillings, or under, if not redeemed within the year of redemption

the offence of stealing goods to the value of forty shillings from a dwelling-house, and down to 1832 for forgery. In

(English) Finance Act, 1896, which fixes the maximum at one shilling in the ' in any parish, instead of at four

(under the rank of gentleman) who holds land yielding 40 shilling per year, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1610.

deposit (which may not be of less amount than one shilling, nor of any sum not a multiple thereof) is to

a pound. See Lambard, 219. A pound Scots, anglice, a shilling. A penfold, an inclosure, a prison in which beasts seized

Petit larceny, stealing of goods of the value of a shilling or under. The distinction between grand and petit larceny was