Grace money
In general, the grace money was a (mostly regular) payment with no legal entitlement .
- Miners' families often received a pardon if the miner was no longer able to work for reasons of age or health (e.g. accident or pneumonia ), or if he died in a mining accident .
- A support for the destitute bereaved (widow, underage children) of punters who died by suicide on the stock exchange was called grace money.
- Donations from wealthy people (e.g. the king) were also called grace money.
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- Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 2. Altenburg 1857 at http://www.zeno.org
- Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 7. Altenburg 1859 at http://www.zeno.org
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