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Definition of Prisage
1. n. A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
Definition of Prisage
1. Noun. (legal UK obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prisage
1. the former right of English kings to wine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prisage
Literary usage of Prisage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Little Red Book of Bristol by Bristol (England). (1900)
"37 is another entry bearing on the prisage of fresh fish which it may be ...
If there shall be less than thirty it shall give nothing for prisage. ..."
2. The Laws of the Customs: Compiled by the Direction of the Lords by Great Britain, James Deacon Hume (1827)
"AND be it further enacted, That nothing in this prisage. Act, nor \n ariy other
Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, shall extend to alter or ..."
3. Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the by George Norton (1869)
"EXCEPT prisage OF WINES.1—prisage of wines was an ancient prerogative appanage
of the crown, and formed one of its chief flowers. ..."
4. The History of the Wine Trade in England by André Louis Simon (1907)
"The prisage was the right of the Crown to take 2 tuns of wine out of every English
vessel bringing 20 or more tuns of wine to England. ..."
5. A Sketch of the History of Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1876)
"1 The king's prisage of wine was particularly objectionable to the merchant ...
It was, therefore, a prisage in change as acceptable to the foreign merchant ..."
6. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1888)
"The royal prerogatives of purveyance, pre-emption and prisage of wine. No new
form of taxation resulted immediately from the Norman conquest of England. ..."
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