Third-penny

Third-penny
Third-penny Third"-pen`ny, n. (A.S. Law) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Third Penny — The local earl s one third share of fines in shire or hundred courts, often allocated afterwards to a particular manor or church as income …   Medieval glossary

  • Third penny — the local earls one third share of fines in shire or hundred courts, often allocated afterwards to a particular manor or church as income …   Medieval glossary

  • Third penny — The earl s share of the revenues accruing from his *shire; the other two pennies went to the king …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness — Developer(s) Hothead Games Designer(s) …   Wikipedia

  • Penny Arcade (webcomic) — Penny Arcade Author(s) Jerry Holkins Mike Krahulik Website penny arcade.com …   Wikipedia

  • Penny Lernoux — (January 6, 1940 ndash; October 9, 1989) was a U.S. journalist and book author.Lernoux was born into a comfortable Catholic family in California and excelled in school. She enrolled in the University of Southern California in the late 1950s and,… …   Wikipedia

  • Penny Ante — was a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right . Played from January 25, 1979 through June 14, 2002, it was played for a prize worth more than $3,000, and it used grocery items.The game was played on the 1980s UK… …   Wikipedia

  • Penny Hardaway — Infobox NBA Player image width = name = Anfernee Hardaway nickname = Penny position = Guard/Forward height ft = 6 | height in = 7 weight lbs = 220 team = nationality = American birth date = birth date and age|1971|7|18 birth place = Memphis,… …   Wikipedia

  • Penny-farthing — For other uses, see Penny farthing (disambiguation). A penny farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic …   Wikipedia

  • Penny (British decimal coin) — For the pre decimal British one penny coin, see Penny (British pre decimal coin). For silver pennies produced after 1820, see Maundy money. One penny United Kingdom Value 1 penny sterling Mass  3.56 g Diameter  20.32 mm …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”