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Record 1 1983-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation Law
  • Taxation
DEF

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 Edward 1 was exchanged into a duty of 2s. for every tun imported by merchant strangers. It was called butlerage because it was paid to the king's butler.

OBS

The concept of butlerage evolved from an earlier one called prisage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit fiscal
  • Fiscalité
DEF

Droit sur le vin vendu en gros ou en détail.

OBS

Le Dictionnaire encyclopédique Quillet, d'où cette définition est tirée, fait précéder celle-ci de la mention FEOD indiquant ainsi que la notion s'applique à l'époque féodale.

Spanish

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