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scutage |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scutage \Scu"tage\ (?; 48), n. [LL. scutagium from L. scutum a shield.] (Eng. Hist.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See {Escuage}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Escuage \Es"cu*age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. escuage, F. ['e]cuage, from OF escu shield, F. ['e]cu. See {Esquire}.] (Feud. Law) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also {scutage}. --Blackstone.
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