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Fiscal Judge

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. judex fiscalis.] An officer named in the laws of the barbarous nations of Europe; the same with the grafio, graf, greve, or reeve. Spelman, voc.

Grafio.

Called fiscal, because charged with the collection of public monies, either directly, or by the imposition of fines. Id. In the Ripuarian law he is said to be the same with the comes or count. L. Ripuar. tit.

35.

Esprit des Lois, liv.

30, c. 18.