Butlerage - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Butlerage, an ancient hereditary duty belonging to the Crown, much older than the customs. It was a right of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tuns or more, and by King Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of 2s. for every tun imported by merchant strangers. It was called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler; and also prisage, because it was a taking or purveyance of wine to the king's use, 4 Inst. 30....
Prisage or Butlerage
Prisage or Butlerage, a custom whereby the price challenges out of every bark laden with wine, two tuns of wine, at his own price. Abolished by 51 Geo. 3, c. 15. Also, that share, usually a tenth part, which belongs to the sovereign or admiral out of such merchandises as are taken at sea, by way of lawful prize, 2 Steph. Com. and 1 Br. & Had. Com. 375....
Butlerage
A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers so called because paid to the kings butler for the king...
Prisage
A right belonging to the crown of England of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more one before and one behind the mast By charter of Edward I butlerage was substituted for this...
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