fisc noun. [fɪsk] Also (Scots Law) fisk. L16.
[French, or Latin FISCUS rush-basket, purse, treasury.]
1. Hist. Orig. the private treasury of the Roman emperors, later developing into a public treasury but retaining considerable imperial control. L16.
b. An exchequer. Now rare. L16.

2. Scots Law. The public treasury or Crown to which estates lapse by escheat; the revenue to the Crown by escheat. Formerly also, the right of the Crown to the estate of a rebel. obsolete exc. Hist. L17.

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