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Definition of Scavage
1. n. A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
Definition of Scavage
1. Noun. (historical) A toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods offered for sale within their precincts. ¹
2. Verb. To act as a scavenger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scavage
1. a toll [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scavage
Literary usage of Scavage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"Equally obscure is the custom called " scavage,"1 by some denned as a fair ...
3 Although by far the fullest information concerning scavage comes from the ..."
2. Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the by George Norton (1869)
"The duty is limited precisely to the same kind of merchandise as that of scavage;
namely, the merchandise of aliens paying port customs. ..."
3. De Jure Maritimo Et Navali: Or, A Treatise of Affairs Maritime, and of by Charles Molloy (1769)
"Of scavage, Package, Porterage, Wa- ter-Baillage, Ports, Members, Creeks, the
Port of London, ... Goods omitted in the scavage Table of Rates, how to pay. ..."
4. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"A list of duties, probably scavage, due in the port of London (? ... Although the
word " scavage " does not occur in the document, the identity is to be ..."
5. Analytical Index, to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia by Corporation of London (England), H. C. Overall, Corporation of London (1878)
"PACKAGE AND scavage. II. 217. Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lords of the
Council, as to the annuity proposed to be granted to Mr. Proby, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an by Patrick Colquhoun (1800)
"The Control exercised by the Corporation, by virtue of several Charters, over
certain classes of Labourers, and in the garbling, package, scavage, ..."
7. Analytical Index, to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia by Corporation of London (England), Corporation of London (1878)
"PACKAGE AND scavage. II. 217. Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lords of the
Council, as to the annuity proposed to be granted to Mr. Proby, ..."
8. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"... and, unless considerably modified, would probably be found to be incompatible
with the spirit of our American institutions. 1092. scavage v. ..."
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