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Tribute, a payment made in acknowledgment; subjection...
Heriot
Formerly a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments or the best beast or chattel due to the lord on the death of a tenant in modern use a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee paid on the decease of a tenant...
Danegelt, 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....
Heriot
Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right of the lord of a manor to the best beast of the deceased tenant of a manor, which beast may be seized by the lord, although it has never been within the manor, Western v. Bailey, (1897) 1 QB 86; but if a customary freehold tenement is mortgaged, and the mort-gagor being in possession dies, the heriot is not due because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant, in order that the militi' apparatus might continue to be used for national defence by each succeeding tenant.A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to lord of the fee on tenant's death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732.The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (Engl...
Maine-port
Maine-port, A small tribute (such as loaves of bread) that parishioners pay to the rector in lieu of tithes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964 It is a small tribute, commonly of loaves of bread, which in some places the parishioners paid to the rector in lieu of small tithes....
Rectitudo
Rectitudo, means a right on legal due; a tribute or payment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1281.Rectitudo, right or justice; legal dues; tribute or payment....
Toll
Toll [fr. tollo, Lat.], to bar, defeat, or take away, as to 'toll an entry' is to deny and take away the right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 39.1. A sum of money paid for use of something esp. The consideration paid to use a public road, highway, or bridge2. A charge for a long call distance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.[fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll, Wel.; taille, Fr.] has two significations:-(1) A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market.(2) A tribute or custom paid for passage. For its importance in railway law, see ss. 3, 86 and 92 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, providing that:-It shall be lawful for the company to use and employ locomotive engines or other moving power, and carriages and waggons to be drawn or propelled thereby, and to carry and convey upon the railway all such passengers and goods as shall be offered to ...
customs
customs The duties, toll, tribute, or tariff payable upon merchandise exported or imported. Source: FindLaw ...
Brennage
A tribute which tenants paid to their lord in lieu of bran which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds...
Chiefage
A tribute by the head a capitation tax...
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