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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received 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, it Imports any perquisite, advantage, profit or gain a from the possession of an office.

Apple v. Crawford County, 105 Pa. P.O.0., 51 Am. Pop. 205. See Peeling v. County of York, 113 Pa. 108, 5 Atl. 67.