Fumage
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
FUAGE, or FOUAGE. A tax paid to the sovereign for every house that had a chimney. It is probable that the hearth-money imposed by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 10, took its origin hence. This hearth-money was declared a great oppression, and abolished by 1 W. & M. Stat. 1, c. 10, but a tax was afterwards laid upon houses, except cottages, and upon all windows, by 1 Wm. HI. c. 18. The window duty was repealed by 14 & 15 Viet. c. 36. Whart. See Heakth Mo Ney.