SALARY, a recompense or consideration made to
a person for his pains and industry in another man's
business. The word is used in the statute 23 Edw. III.
cap. 1. Salarium at first signified the rents or profits of
a sale, hall, or house (and in Gascoigne they now call
the seats of the gentry sala's, as we do halls); but af-
terwards it was taken for any wages, stipend, or annual
allowance.