Thesaurus: talliage
A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
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- n. A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
- A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.] 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.