Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    The trial of money by heating It after it was coined. The loss of weight occasioned by this pro cess. A pound was said to hum so many pence (tot ardere denarios) as it lost by the fire. Spelman. The term is now obsolete,