tallage Meaning, Definition & Usage

Tal"lage, Tal"li*age noun (Also<
  • Tallage
  • Talliage
)
Etymology
F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.
Definitions
  1. (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. Written also tailage, taillage. ✍ 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 transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

Webster 1913