Meaning & use
fiscus
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The public treasury or state exchequer, especially as used historically in Roman law to refer to the imperial treasury.
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Legal scholars traced the origins of modern tax law back to the Roman fiscus.
Provincial revenues were funneled directly into the emperor's fiscus.
A note on using this word
Latin for "basket" or "purse," the term evolved to mean the state's money and is the root of modern words like "fiscal."
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