Found 1 items, similar to scutage.
English → English (gcide) Definition: scutage 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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]