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Quarter-Eagle

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Bouvier (1839)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A gold coin of the 1 of the court to quash an indictment or to United States, of the value of two and a half leave the defendant to a motion in arrest of dollars. See Money; Coin. i judgment; Com. v. Eastman, 1 Cush. (Mass.) ! 189, 48 Am. Dec. 596; State v. Miller, 100 N.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A gold coin of the United Slates, of the value of two and a half dollars.

Defined under Quarter in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

: money, a gold coin of the United States of the value of two dollars and a half. It weighs sixty-four and one-half grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 10, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story’s