Hearth Money
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A tax, granted by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 10, abolished 1 Wm. & Mary, st. 1, c. 10, of two shillings on every hearth or stove in England and Wales, except such as pay not to the church and poor. Jacob. Commonly called "chimney money." Id.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A tax, granted by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 10, abolished 1 Will. & Mary, St 1, c. 10, of two shillings on every hearth or stove In England and Wales. Jacob, Law Diet Commonly called chimney-money. Id.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In English law. A tax of two shillings upon every hearth, granted by statutes 13 and 14 Car. IL, c. 10, and abolished by statute 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10. Hearth silver: a species of modus or composition for tithes.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A tax of two shillings on every hearth in Engapparent: one certain heir presumptive: tor died to-day, but feated by some contingency. custom, as gavelkind, lands are devised by blood of all the lands. mam doni, under the the heir general.