Annona

Barley; corn; grain; a yearly contribution of food, of various kinds, for support. Annona porcum, acorns; annona frumentum hor- The term is used in the old English law, and also in the civil law quite generally, to denote anything contributed by one person towards the support of another; as, si quia mancipio annonam dederit (if any shall have given food to a slave); Du Cange. ANNON/E CIVILE S. Yearly rents issuing out of certain lands and payable to monasteries.

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In old English law. Corn or grain; anything laid up toward a year's subsistence.

In the civil law. Corn or grain; provisions; provision for a year's subsistence. Annona;: contributions by owners of farms in the province SjOf bread, meat, etc., for the use of the army. Annonse civiles: Iil?e contributions by way of rent to ecclesiastical persons and others.

Grain; food. An old English and civil law term to denote a yearly contribution by one person to the support of another.

Lat. [from annus, a year.] Corn or grain. Spelman. LL. Edw. Conf. c. 8. Domesday. Whatever is laid up for a year's subsistence, (quicquid in annuum alimonium reconditur.) Spelman.