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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

The royal revenue.

1 BI. Comm. 306.

CENT (Lat. centum, one hundred). A coin of the United States, weighing seventytwo grains, and composed of eighty-eight per centum of copper and twelve of nickel.

Act Feb. 21, 1857, § 4. See 11 U. S. St. at Large, 163, 164.