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.