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tallage |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tallage \Tal"lage\, Talliage \Tal"li*age\, n. [F. taillage. See {Taille}, and cf {Tailage}.] (O. Eng. Law) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tallage \Tal"lage\, v. t. To lay an impost upon to cause to pay tallage.
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