TALLAGED

Verb

tallaged

simple past tense and past participle of tallage

Source: Wiktionary


TALLAGE

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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