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

Black's Law Dictionary

Money paid by way of contract or composition to purchase any liberty, etc. Blount. inisera est servitus, uhi jus est vagum aut incertum. It is a wretched state of slavery which subsists where the law is vague or uncertain.

4 Inst. 245; Broom, Max. 150.