Definitions for: Tallage

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.]

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.

Tal"lage, v. t.
To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

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