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Definition: tallage
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]