Subsidy

' 1.

Aid granted, to the king by Parliament, upon exigencies of state, to be levied of each subject upon his property; also, a custom payable upon exports and imports of staple commodities.

8 ' Cberaw, &c. B. Co. v. White, 14 S. C. 63 (1880), Willard, C. J. "Knapp V. Duck Creek Valley Oil Co., 53 Pa. 191 ' Grand Lodge v. Farnham, 70 Cal. 159-160 cases. < 1 Pars. Cpntr. 453-55, cases. 'Cottage Street Church v. Kendall, 121 Mass. 530 (1877), cases. Gray, C. J: 16 Am. Law Reg. 548-54 (1877), cases. See also Miller v. Ballard, 46 111. 377 (1868); Pratt V. Baptist Society, 93 id. 478 (1879), cases; Stuart V. Presbyterian Church, 84 Pa. 388(1877); Williams v. Eogan, 59 Tex. 433 (1883), cases; Eaton u Pacific Nat. Bank, 144 Mass. 280, 374 (1887), cases; 9 Va. Law J. 321- 81 (1835), cases; 26 Am. Law Reg. 1-20 (1887), cases. « Bates County v. Winters, 112 U. S. 327 (1884), cases. 2.

Pecuniary assistance from a government toward an enterprise of benefit to the public; as, of money to a steamship company, or of money and lands to a railroad corporation.

3.

Money paid an ally in war.