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Danegeld

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders or to maintain forces to oppose them It afterward became a permanent tax raised by an assessment at first of one shilling afterward of two shillings upon every hide of land throughout the realm

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