Butlerage
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A certain portion of every cask of wine imported by an alien, which the king's butler was allowed to take. Called also "prisage." 2 Bulst. 254. Anciently, it might be taken also of wine imported by a subject. 1 Bl. Comm. 315; Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A certain portion of every cask of wine imported by an alien, which the king's butler was allowed to take. Called also prisage; 2 Bulstr. 254. Anciently, it might be taken also of wine imported by a subject. 1 Bla. Com. 315; Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In old English law. An ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, at first called prisage (q. v.), being the right of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tuns or more. By charter of Edward L it was changed to a duty of two shillings for every tun imported by merchant strangers, — called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A privilege formerly ale lowed to the king’s butler, to take a certain part of every cask of wine imported by an alien,
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
In old Endish law. A very ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, at first called prisage, (q. v.) being the right of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tuns or more, which by charter of Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of two shillings for every ton imported by merchant strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler. 1 Bl. Com. 316. Termes de la leg. Molloy de Jut. Marit. 302. 2 Inst. 69, 60.