taillage

Noun

tallage (countable and uncountable, plural tallages)

1. An impost.
   • ‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 93
2. (UK, historical, obsolete) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
   • The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

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