'Tallage' definitions:
Definition of 'Tallage'
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]
Definition of 'Tallage'
From: GCIDE
- Tallage \Tal"lage\, v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'tallage'
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]