Conscience Money, stolen or wrongfully acquired money returned to its rightful owner when conscience is awakened to a sense of right dealing. In the United States such money paid into the Treasury at Washington by self-avowed debtors anonymously is known as the Conscience Fund.


Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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