• (n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral. • (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.Prisage: words in t...
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Pris'age noun [ Old French
prisage a praising, valuing, taxing; confer Late Latin
prisagium prisage; or from French
prise a taking, capture, prize. See
Prize .]
(O. Eng. Law) (a) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every...
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the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported. Cf.
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