TALLAGE

Tallage

Tallage or talliage may have signified at first any tax, but became in England and France a land use or land tenure tax. Later in England it was further limited to assessments by the crown upon cities, boroughs, and royal domains. In effect, tallage was a land tax.

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tallage

Noun

  1. An impost.
  2. A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.

Verb

  1. To lay an impost upon.
  2. To cause to pay tallage.


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