Fiscus
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Civil Law. The treasury of a prince; the public treasury.
1 Low C. 361.
In France, fisc. Hence, to confiscate a thing Is to appropriate It to the fisc. Paillet, Droit Public, 21, n., says that fiscus, In the Roman law, slgnifled the treasury of the prince, and cerarium the treasury of the state. This distinction was not observed in France. In course of time the fiscus absorbed the cerarium and became the treasury of the state.
Gray, Nature and Sources of Law 68. See Law 10, ft.
De jure FUoi.