a reward given to pervert the judgment. The word is French, *bride*, which originally denotes a bit, fragment, or relic of meat taken off the table; so that bribe imports as much as *panis mendicatus*, and still keeps up the idea of the matter of which bribes anciently consisted. Hence also the Spaniards use *brider* and *bricar* for *begging*; and *brivida*, *briconeria*, and *briconismo*, for *beggary*. In the writers of the middle ages, a bribe given to a judge is called *quato litis*, and the receiver *campi participes*, or *cambi participes*; because the spoils of the field, or the profits of the cause, were thus shared with the giver.