Crossword clues for poundage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poundage \Pound"age\, n.
A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
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.(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 \Pound"age\, v. t. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
Poundage \Pound"age\, n. [See 3d Pound.]
Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "tax per pound;" 1903 as "weight;" from pound (n.1) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) a charge based on the weight of something in pounds 2 (context countable English) a charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling 3 (context countable English) a weight measured in pounds 4 (context countable English) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release 5 (context uncountable English) the keeping of an animal in a pound vb. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
WordNet
n. a charge based on weight measured in pounds
a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals
weight expressed in pounds
placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: impoundment, impounding, internment]
Wikipedia
In English law, poundage was an ad valorem customs duty imposed on imports and exports at the rate of 1 shilling for every pound of goods imported or exported.
The levy was introduced in 1347 and continued for many years at the same rate until after the Restoration from when Parliament set the rates according to current needs.
Poundage was closely associated with tonnage, or tunnage, which was a duty on every tun of wine imported.
Usage examples of "poundage".
Her sister, after the commencement of the war with France, had, from her own authority, imposed four marks on each tun of wine imported, and had increased the poundage a third on all commodities.
The parliament, who had so good an opportunity of restraining these arbitrary taxes when they voted the tonnage and poundage, thought not proper to make any mention of them.
They were preparing a remonstranace against the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament.
They then openly asserted, that the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, was a palpable violation of the ancient liberties of the people, and an open infringement of the petition of right, so lately granted.
The parliament did not grant the duty of tonnage and poundage to Henry VIII.
The following interval between the second and third parliament, was distinguished by so many exertions of prerogative, that men had little leisure to attend to the affair of tonnage and poundage, where the abuse of power in the crown might seem to be of a more disputable nature.
The inquiries and debates concerning tonnage and poundage went hand in hand with these theological or metaphysical controversies.
Sir John Elliot framed a remonstrance against levying tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, and offered it to the clerk to read.
Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.
Tonnage and poundage continued to be levied by the royal authority alone.
All the farmers and officers of the customs, who had been employed during so many years in levying tonnage and poundage and the new impositions, were likewise declared criminals, and were afterwards glad to compound for a pardon by paying a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
The pretensions with regard to tonnage and poundage were revived, and with certain assurance of success, by the commons.
And how the poundage was under for that mission, and how the quota had to be revised in all the other districts, and how some men had to go to the Grind who were not listed by LOCAL DECISION.
I was removed - Blonk, once the most awesome of all the Captains with the poundage record gleaming on his chest - drummed out!
The tonnage and poundage which has been levied by the King, without the consent of Parliament, is causing much discontent among the merchants, and the increased taxation on imported tobacco has-affected the profits of the Western Trading Company considerably.