Taille Definition

tāl, täyə
noun
A French feudal tax imposed by the king or a lord.
Webster's New World
A form of direct royal taxation that was levied in France before 1789 on nonprivileged subjects and lands and tended to weigh most heavily on the peasants.
American Heritage

Origin of Taille

  • French from Old French division tail2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French taille (“cut", noun).

    From Wiktionary

Taille Sentence Examples

  • The royal taille, though levied by the king by right, did not fall upon the whole kingdom.

  • At that time there was no royal taille, strictly speaking; it was only the seigniorial taille transferred to the crown, but it was one of the first taxes his right to levy which upon all the inhabitants of the domain of the crown, whether serfs or roturiers, was recognized.

  • The royal taille naturally retained the distinctive characteristics of the seigniorial, as can be seen from an examination of the way in which it was assessed and collected; the chief characteristic being that ecclesiastics and nobles, who were exempt from the seigniorial taille, were also exempt from the royal.

  • He demanded the reform of the taille, the suppression of internal customs duties and greater freedom of trade.

  • The taille seigneuriale was a true tax, levied by a lord on all his subjects who were neither nobles nor ecclesiastics.

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Words Starting With

TTATAI

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ELELLE

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