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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 sense in which it is most commonly used is “money”; a quantity of money or currency; any amount indefinitely, a sum of money, a small sum, or a large sum.
U. S. v. Van Auken, 96 U. S. 368, 24 L. Ed. 852.