Category:Tallage

Tal"lage, tal"li*age, n. Etym: [f. taillage. See taille, and cf. Tailage.] (o. Eng. Law)

Defn: 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.

Tallage Tal"lage, v. t.

Defn: to lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.