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Poundage
Poundage Pound"age, n.
1. A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for
each pound; a commission.
2. A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted
to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by
aliens, more. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
3. (Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon
the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in
England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of
the pound. --Burrill. Bouvier.
Poundage
Poundage Pound"age, v. t.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
[R.]
PoundagePoundage Pound"age, n. [See 3d Pound.]
1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public
pound.
2. A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
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- In
English law,
poundage was an ad
valorem (in
proportion to value)
customs duty
imposed on
imports and
exports at the rate of 1
shilling for
every pound...
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Tonnage and
poundage were
English duties and
taxes first levied in
Edward II's
reign on
every tun (cask) of
imported wine,
which came
mostly from Spain...
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approximate poundage-rating
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- A
poundage quota, also
called a
marketing quota, is a
quantitative limit on the
amount of a
commodity that can be
marketed under the
provisions of a permanent...
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using drop sets (aka dropsets,
descending sets,
strip sets, the multi-
poundage system the
stripping method, triple-drops, down the rack, or
running the...
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Commons limited its
authorisation for
royal collection of
tonnage and
poundage (two
varieties of
customs duties) to a year,
although previous sovereigns...
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imported goods; from the 14th
century this
became known as
tonnage and
poundage. A
Board of
Customs was
effectively created by the Long
Parliament on 21...
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James a
generous life income,
including all of the
proceeds of
tonnage and
poundage and the
customs duties.
James worked harder as king than his
brother had...
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