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Carucage

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. carucagium, from caruca, a plough.] In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed upon every plough, (carue or plough land) for the public service. Spelman, voc.

Caruca.

Called by Bracton, (fol. 87,) caruagium; by other writers caruage, and carvage.

Cowell.

Blount, voc.

Carucata.

Termes de la ley.