Tail·age n. O. Eng. Law See Tallage.
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Tal·lage Tal·li·age n. O. Eng. Law A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
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.
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