Fisc
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
The treasury of a prince; the public treasury.
1 Low. (U. S.) 361.
Hence, to confiscate a thing is to appropriate it to the fisc. Paillet, Dr. Pub. 21, note, says that fiscus, in the Roman law, signified the treasure of the prince, and aerarium the treasurer of the state. But this distinction was not observed in France.