third penny

English

Noun

third penny (plural third pennies)

(UK, law, obsolete) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “third penny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)