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HONORARIUM

Legal Term: HONORARIUM
Definition: A recompense for services rendered. It is usually applied only to the recompense given to persons whose business is connected with science; as the fee paid to counsel.

2. It is said this honorarium is purely voluntary, and differs from a fee, which may be recovered by action. 5 Serg. & Rawle, 412; 3 Bl. Com. 28; 1 Chit. Rep. 38; 2 Atk. 332; but see 2 Penna. R. 75; 4 Watts R. 334. Vide Dalloz, Dict. h. t., and Salary. See Counsellor at law.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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