Poundage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
The amount allowed to the sheriff, or other officer, for commissions on the money made by virtue of an execution. This allowance varies in different states, and to different officers. POUR COMPTE DE QUI IL APPARtient (Fr.) For account of whom it may concern.
Emerig.
Tr. des Assur. c.
11, sec. 4, § 3.
A phrase in insurance law. POUR SEISIR TERRES (Law Pr. for seizing the lands). In old practice. A writ by which the king seized the land which the wife of a tenant in capite, deceased, had for her dower, if she married without his leave.
Cowell.