Definition of Cert Money

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Cert money
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Yearly payments to the lord of the manor for the keeping of the leet.

  • Cert Money
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In old English law. Head money or common fine. Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the leet, (pro certo letœ;) and sometimes to the hundred. Blount; 6 Coke, 78.