Meanings
- not comparableOn which a tallage must be paid.
It was typically not levied on all tallageable entities at the same time.
2017 October 3, Julie L. Mell, “An Economic Function for the Crown? On Tallage, Taxation, and the Legal Status of the Jews”, in The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN2 more examples
If men were not the Kings immediate Tenants, they were not Tallageable to the King but to their immediate Lord.
1711, Thomas Madox, “Of the Revenue ariſing by Tallage”, in The History and Antiquities of the Excheequer of the Kings of England, In Two Periods: To wit, from the Norman Conqueſt, to the End of the Reign of K. John; And From the End of the Reign of K. John, to the End of the Reign of K. Edward II: Taken from Records., London: John Matthews, via the Internet Archive, page 498The liberties of the University were affirmed to extend to the 'families' (i.e. servants) of clerks, as well as the Bedels, parchment-makers, illuminators, writers, barbers, and 'others who wore the livery or robes of the clerks.' If, however, the latter engaged in 'merchandise', they were to be tallageable like the burgesses.
1895, Hastings Rashdall, “XII. The English Universities §3 The University and the Town”, in The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, volume II, part II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, via the Internet Archive, page 402Synonyms: talliable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOn which a tallage must be paid.
Origin
- Old Frenchtaillier
- Frenchtailler
- Frenchtaillage
- Middle Englishtallage
- Englishtallage
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰeh₁bʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
- Proto-Italic*haβēō
- Latinhabeō
- Latinhabilis
- Old Frenchable
- Middle Englishable
- Englishable
- Englishtallageable
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