tallage (countable and uncountable, plural tallages)
An impost.
(UK, legal, obsolete or historical) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
tallage (third-person singular simple present tallages, present participle tallaging, simple past and past participle tallaged)
To lay an impost upon.
To cause to pay tallage.
• Latgale, gallate
Source: Wiktionary
Tal"lage, Tal"li*age, n. Etym: [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. Blackstone.
Tal"lage, v. t.
Definition: To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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