What is "emolument"

Usage examples of "emolument".

The resources of the Roman treasury were exhausted by the increase of pay, by the repetition of donatives, and by the invention of new emolument and indulgences, which, in the opinion of the provincial youth might compensate the hardships and dangers of a military life.

He accepted, with pleasure, the useful reinforcement of hardy workmen, who labored in the gold mines of Thrace, for the emolument, and under the lash, of an unfeeling master: and these new associates conducted the Barbarians, through the secret paths, to the most sequestered places, which had been chosen to secure the inhabitants, the cattle, and the magazines of corn.

Romans, who converted the spoil to their own emolument, demolished, with sacrilegious hands, the labors of their ancestors.

Roman jurisprudence has pronounced, that the charge of tutelage should constantly attend the emolument of succession.

Careless of his own emolument, he assigned to Abbas, the uncle of the prophet, the first and most ample allowance of twenty-five thousand drachms or pieces of silver.

The barons apprised their sovereign of the hard treaty and impending loss and as the empire could not afford a ransom of seven thousand pounds sterling, Baldwin was anxious to snatch the prize from the Venetians, and to vest it with more honor and emolument in the hands of the most Christian king.

He certainly came to the public service with patriotic and not with sordid motives, surrendering a most brilliant position at the bar, and with it the emolument of which in the absence of accumulated wealth his family was in daily need.

Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Although Brennan never took a bribe or emolument from any city worker or vendor, the police commissioner was not above taking advantage of certain perks of his office, such as a city-owned cabin at the city reservoir or a city car.

Everywhere in Newark it was seen as a great coup for Jacobs that he had convinced a name partner in a firm to give so much up for the meager emolument and lowly prestige of a state court superior judge.

Then again, he said, the declaration is to be extended to all offices of trust and emolument under the crown, and the bill left it entirely to the king to say in such cases, whether his majesty would, or would not require such a declaration: he could not but object to the provisions of a bill, the object of which was to take away the sacramental test merely on the ground of expediency, and to substitute in its place a declaration which, in some instances, might or might not be taken, according to the will of the sovereign.

But the work came to have a fascination for him, and he saw possibilities in it of pecuniary emolument such as the hardware business did not afford.