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- Scutage was a medieval English tax levied on holders of a knight's fee under the feudal land tenure of knight-service. Under feudalism the king, through...
- knight-service of a mesne lord becomes, first in fact and then in law, a tenure by escuage (i.e. scutage). By the time of Henry III, as Bracton states, the test of...
- the law as it stood in Littleton's time relating to homage, fealty, and escuage, the money compensation to be paid to the lord in lieu of military service...