Hioage

In Old English Law. A tax levied, in emergencies, on every hide of land; the exemption from such tax. Bract lib. 2, c. 56. It was payable sometimes in money, sometimes in ships or military equipments; e. g. in the year 994, when the Danes landed in England, every three hundred hides furnished a ship to king Ethelred, and every eight hides one pack and one saddle. Jacob, Law Diet. See Hide. HIDALGO (spelled, also, Eijodalgo). In Spanish Law. He who, by blood and lineage, belongs to a distinguished family, or is noble by descent Las Partidas 2. 12. 3. HIDE (from Sax. hydcn, to cover; so, Lat. tectum; from tegere). In Old English Law. Originally a building with a roof; a houses a tenement As much land as might be ploughed with one plough. The amount was probably determined by usage of the locality; some make it sixty, others eighty, others ninetysix, others one hundred or one hundred and twenty, acres. Co. Litt. 5; 1 Plowd. 167; Shepp. Touchst. 93; Du Cange. A hide was anciently employed as a unit of taxation. 1 Poll. & Maitl. 347, such tax being called hidegild. As much land as was necessary to support a hide, or mansion-house. Co. Litt 69 a; Spelman, Glos.s.; Du Cange, Hida; 1 Introd. to Domesday 145. The unit of superficial measure,' at the time of the Domesday survey, usually found in the southern counties, while carucate or ploughland prevailed in the northern counties. Although these words had various customary values in different parts of the country, there is a good deal of evidence that, at the Conquest, there was a tendency to a ' mean or normal value of 120 acres for hide divided into four virgates or yardlands. The I gangs, implying the land which eight oxen (caruca) could till in a year. Pollock, English Manor 144. There is much doubt as to what it was; it may have been 30 acres or thereabouts or 120 acres or thereabouts; Maitland, Domesday and Beyond 337, where the opinion is expressed that in Anglo-Saxon times it was 120 acres.