Danegeld - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: danegeldDanegelt, Danegeld, or Danegold
Danegelt, Danegeld, or Danegold [fr. danegeldum, dane and gelt, tribute], a tribute of 1s., and after-wards of 2s., upon every hide of land through the realm, levied by the Anglo-Saxons for maintaining forces sufficient to clear the British seas of Danish pirates, who greatly annoyed our coasts. It continued a tax until the time of Stephen, and was one of the rights of the Crown, Anc. Insts. Eng....
Danegeld
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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