tallage

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tallage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  Tallage \Tal"lage\, v. t.
     To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
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tallage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TALLAGE. This word is derived from the French tailler, and signifies 
  literally to cut. In England it is used to signify subsidies, taxes, 
  customs, and indeed any imposition whatever by the government for the 
  purpose of raising a revenue. Bac. Ab. Smuggling, &c. B; Fortesc. De Laud. 
  26; Madd. Exch. ch. 17; 2 Inst. 531, 532 Spelm. Gl. h.v.