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Scavage

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

SCHEVAGE, SCHEWAGE, or shewage. A kind of toll or custom, exacted by mayors, sheriffs, etc., of merchant strangers, for wares showed or offered for sale within their liberties.

Prohibited by 19 Hen. VII. c. 7. Cowell.