Definition of Stallage

1. n. The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

Definition of Stallage

1. Noun. (obsolete) The dues levied for the erection and use of a stall at a fair or market. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stallage

1. rent paid for a market stall [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stallage

stalking horses
stalkingly
stalkings
stalkless
stalklike
stalko
stalkoes
stalks
stalkumentaries
stalkumentary
stalky
stall
stall-fed
stall bar
stall handler
stallage (current term)
stallages
stallation
stalled
staller
stallers
stallholder
stallholders
stalling
stallings
stallioneer
stallioneers
stallioner
stallioners

Literary usage of Stallage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1820)
"... to me in the nature of stallage. I can see 1620. nothing unlawful in the owner of the market taking a 8 ke of different toll, in different parts of it, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Graham Willmore, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Bail Court (1839)
"... booths and stalls for the entertainment of strangers coming to the fair It - clear that a prescription for a certain toll, by way of stallage, is good, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Markets and Fairs with the Principal Statutes by Joseph Gerald Pease, Herbert Chitty (1899)
"stallage and the like payments are made in respect of some user of the soil ... An action for stallage is analogous to an action for use and occupation of ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Tolls: And Therein, of Tolls Thorough and by Frederic Gunning (1833)
"stallage is a duty for the liberty of having stalls in a fair or market, or for removing them from one place to another: PICK AGE is a duty for picking ..."

5. Precedents in Pleading: With Copious Notes on Pleading, Practice and Evidence by Joseph Chitty, Henry Pearson (1847)
"... 536; 1 B. & B. 224, SC; Burnt v. Thompson, 1 Car. & Marsh, 34. of Falmouth v. Thomas, 1 C. & M. 89. market tolls and stallage, would be allowed (p) An ..."

6. A New Law Dictionary and Institute of the Whole Law: For the Use of Students by Archibald Brown (1874)
"stallage. A toll, or duty, payable for the liberty of erecting a st;dl in a fair or market, ï'ulm. Rep. 77 ; Coin. Dig tit. " Market" (F. 2) ; Brady Bor. ..."

7. Reading Records: Diary of the Corporation by J. M. Guilding (1895)
"... a peice for their stallage,) it was agreed that Salomon Russell ... take but onely \]d. a quarter for their stallage. At this daye it was agreed that ..."

8. Diary of the Corporation by J. M. Guilding, Reading (England). City Council, Reading (England) (1895)
"... a peice for their stallage,) it was agreed that Salomon Russell shall take but onely \\d. a quarter for their ..."

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