Thirlage

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

  Thirlage \Thirl"age\, n. [Cf. {Thrall}.] (Scots Law)
     The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or
     law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his
     sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.
     --Erskine.
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  THIRLAGE, Scotch law. The name of servitude by which lands are astricted or 
  thirled to a particular mill, and the possessors bound to grind their grain 
  there, for the payment of certain multures and sequels as the agreed price 
  of grinding. Ersk. Prin. B. 2, t. 9, n. 18.