TALLAGE

{ Tal″lage (?), 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.] ☞ 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.