'taillage' definitions:

Definition of 'taillage'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]