Scutage
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The payment made by tenants in chivalry, in lieu of personal service.
Cmvd; 1 Bl. Com. 310; 2 Id. 74.
A tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight service, towards furnishing the king's army, at one, two, or three marks for every knight's fee.
Wharton.
Se defendendo. In defending himself. A phrase used in expressing the rule as to homicide committed in selfdefence.