Scutage

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scutage \Scu"tage\ (?; 48), n. [LL. scutagium, from L. scutum a
     shield.] (Eng. Hist.)
     Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See
     {Escuage}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tallage \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}.]
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Escuage \Es"cu*age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. escuage, F. ['e]cuage, from
     OF. escu shield, F. ['e]cu. See {Esquire}.] (Feud. Law)
     Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a
     tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own
     charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary
     satisfaction. Called also {scutage}. --Blackstone.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SCUTAGE, old Eng. law. The name of a tax or contribution raised for the use 
  of the king's armies by those who held lands by knight's service.