SALARY

A reward or recompense for services performed. 2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the performance of his official duties. 3. The salary of the president of the United States is twenty-five thousand dollars per annum; Act of l8th Feb. 1793; and the constitution, art. 2, s. 1, provides that the compensation of the president shall not be increased … [Read more...] about SALARY

Lat. In the civil law. An allowance of provisions. A stipend, wages, or compensation for services. An annual allowance or compensation. Calvin. … [Read more...] about SALARIUM

A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France, against Saladln, sultan of Egypt, then going to besiege Jerusalem. By this tax every person who did not enter himself a crusader was obliged to pay a tenth of his yearly revenue and of the value of all his … [Read more...] about SALADINE TENTH

Fit for sale to the general public for the purposes of use, merchantable. … [Read more...] about SALABLE

In old English law. A lord's right of amercing his tenants in his court. Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, L 1, c. 47, $ 7. … [Read more...] about SAKE