Prest
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A duty in money that was to be paid by the sheriff on his account, in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
Wharton Prest-mouey
A payment which binds those who receive it to be ready at all times appointed, being meant especially of soldiers.
Cowel ' Prestation-money
A sum of money paid by archdeacons yearly to their bishop; also purveyance.
Wharton.
Prestimony, or praestimonia. A fund or revenue appropriated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory, and which is not subject to the ordinary, but of which the patron, and those who have a right from him, are the collators. Canon Law.