GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   { Tallage , Talliage , } 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.]
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   ☞ 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.
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   Tallage, v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
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