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fisc, fisk|fɪsk|
Also 7 fisque.
[a. Fr. fisc, or independently ad. L. fiscus rush-basket, purse, treasury. The current spelling in Sc. Law is fisk, in other uses fisc.]
1. Antiq. The public treasury of Rome; under the Empire, the imperial treasury or privy purse of the Emperor.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. ii. xi. (1603) 49 Cæsar..bestowed the goods of Aemilia Musa, a rich woman, fallen to the fisque; vpon Aemilius Lepidus. 1601Holland Pliny II. 463 The Fisque or city chamber by that means was soone acquit of all debts. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. I. 274 The endowments of the heathenish temples were..adjudged to the fisc, or the Emperor's exchequer. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxiii. 55 The endowment of the professors..seems to have been made from the fisc.
b. Any royal or state treasury; an exchequer. Now rare (Hist. or with allusion to ‘confiscation’). Also attrib. in fisc-lands (Hist.) = fiscal lands.
1599Broughton's Lett. iii. 11 As if your inuentions were al Treasure trouue, fiske royal. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 609 Peru..By yeerly Fleets into his Fisk doth flow. 1697Evelyn Numism. vii. 233 The Fisque and publick Treasure. 1788Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xlviii. 360 A fine must therefore be paid to the fisc. 1801A. Ranken Hist. France I. 251 Public or fisc lands, which formed the revenue of the government. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. I. iii. ii. 287 King Chlotaire demanded for the fisc the third part of the revenue of the churches. 1868Mill in Star 13 Mar., How can that be confiscation by which the fisc is not to receive anything.
c. jocosely. A man's purse or ‘exchequer’.
1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Two Races of Men, The streams were perennial which fed his fisc.
2. Scots Law. The public treasury or ‘Crown’, to which estates lapse by escheat: in the phrase ‘as to the fisc’ (translating quoad fiscum), i.e. so far as the Crown rights of escheat are concerned. † Hence incorrectly used for: The right of the Crown to the estate of a rebel.
[1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 415 § 107 Provyding allwayes that..the bandis or contractes heirby ordeened to perteene to þe neerest of kine..shall not fall wnder þe compas of escheat nor ȝit any pairt therof perteene to þe relict jure relictæ Bot shall remaine in þe owne nature quoad fiscum et relictam as they wer befor þe making of this acte.] 1680in Fountainhall's Hist. Notices (1848) I. 269 The King..was sending..a letter converting the sentence to banishment, and confiscating his ship and all his goods, but preferring his creditors theirin to his fisk. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law ii. ii. §11 Personal bonds are now moveable in respect of succession, but heritable as to the fisk, and husband and wife. 1773― Instit. Law Scot. ii. ii. §10 heading, By the word fisk in this statute [see quot. 1641] is meant the crown's right to the moveable estate of persons denounced rebels.
3. = fiscal n.
†a. Sc. Law (obs.)
b. Used by Browning after It. fisco.
1732J. Louthian Form of Process iii. 19 Every Sheriff or Fisk of Court, to whom the Execution of the Warrand is committed, orders a Party..for the Prisoner's safe transportation..and gives Receipt to the Fisk of the County he receives him from. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 14 The Court Requires the allocution of the Fisc. |