butlerage
/buht-ler-ij/US // ˈbʌt lər ɪdʒ //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Old English Law.
- : the privilege allowed the king's butler to take a certain quantity of every cask of wine imported by an alien.
Examples
There is also another antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines.
Butlerage ceased to be levied in 1809, by the Customs Consolidation Act of that year.
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