Roger Sherman: “A Caveat against Injustice”

Glossary

• Book Debts money owed to a business for goods that have been supplied or services that have been performed
• Estates property, possessions
• Extrinsical Value value assigned to something such as currency by usage and common consent
• foreasmuch given that, since, because
• intrinsick Value inherent value
• legal Tender any form of currency that cannot be refused as a means of payment for a debt
• shew antique spelling of “show”
• shilling a former unit of British currency worth one-twentieth of a British pound
• Tale a count, tally, or enumeration
• viz. abbreviation of Latin videlicet, or “that is to say”