CANONICUM, in the Greek church, a fee paid by the clergy to bishops, archbishops, and metropolitans, for degrees and promotions. Also a due of first fruits paid by the laity to their bishops or priests.
1 Stair's Institutions of the Law of Scotland, b. i., tit. i., § 14.
2 Wilton's Creynkil of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 398.
3 Lindsay's Works, vol. iii., p. 89.
4 Gail. Grotii Vita Jurisconsultorum, p. 150. Bachi Hist. Jurisprudentia Romana, p. 477.