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Monetagium

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An ancient tribute paid by tenants to their lord every third year, in consideration of the lord’s not changing the money he had coined. Mintage, or the right of coining money. Cowell.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Mintage or the right of coining money. Cowell. Hence, anciently, a tribute payable to a lord who had the prerogative of coining money, by his tenants, in consideration of his refraining from changing the coinage.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Mintage, or the right of coining money. Cowell. Hence, anciently, a tribute payable to a lord who had the prerogative of coining money, by his tenants, in consideration of his retraining from changing the coinage. Mone‘andi jus comprehenditur in regalibus que nunquam a regio sceptro abdicantur. The right of coining money is compreheaded among those royal prerogatives whieh are never relinguished by the royal scepter. Day. Ir. K. B. 18.