Butlerage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.