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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The profit arising from office or employment; that which is recoived as a compensation for services or which is annexed to the possession of office as salary, fees, and perquisites; advantage; gain, public or private.

Webster.

Any perquisite, advantage, profit, or gain arising from the possession of an office.

Apple v. Crawford County, 105 Pa. 303, 51 Am. Rep. 205; Hoyt v. U. S., 10 How. 135, 13 In Ed. 348; Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 110, 53 Ati. 711.