| 单词 | mails and duties |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmails and duties Payment, tax, tribute, rent. In O.E. also: †agreement, deal (obsolete). mails and duties: the rents of an estate. Cf. blackmail n.Also with word prefixed: see burrow-mail n., feu n. Compounds 1, grass mail n. at grass n.1 Compounds 5, house n.1 and int. Compounds 10, land-male n. at land n.1 Compounds 3, rental n. Compounds 1b, retour n. Compounds 2, silver n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] yieldc950 tollc1000 tolne1023 mailOE lotlOE ransomc1325 tail1340 pensiona1387 contribution1387 scat gild14.. due1423 responsionc1447 impositionc1460 devoirs1503 excisea1513 toloney1517 impost1569 cast1597 levy1640 responde1645 reprise1818 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1049 Eadwerd cing scylode ix scypa of male. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Se cyng sealde his land swa deore to male, swa heo deorost mihte. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10188 Forrþi badd hemm sannt iohan..sammnenn laȝhelike. & rihht Þe kingess rihhte male. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 179 And giet ne wile þe louerd ben paid mid his rihcte mol. ?a1300 Vision St. Paul (Digby) 161 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1879) 62 404/2 Of men hoe taken hounriȝt mol. 1396 in Sc. Antiquary (1900) 14 217 The forsayd Scher Jone sal haf the malys of Ouchtyrtyre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 5376 I gif him wonynge stede to wale for euermare, wiþ-outen male. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 96 The cristin men, yat ar duelland jn the mistrowand menis housis vndermalis, suld be lele to thair malaris, and obeisand. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2754 in Poems (1981) 102 Scantlie may he purches by his maill To leue vpon dry breid. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 97 The malis and fermis of the grond..is hychtit to sic ane price. 1622 Linlithgow Burgh Rec. 25 Oct. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Na flescheris to ber any mal of the standes. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §17 Recovering and uplifting from the vassals..the mails and duties or rents and profits thereof. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. vii. §20. 529 The arrears of rent, or, in our law-style, of mails and duties, prescribe, if [etc.]. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 232 The rental-book..bore evidence against the Goodman of Primrose-Knowe, as behind the hand with his mails and duties. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Maills and Duties are the rents of an estate, whether in money or grain; hence, an action for the rents of an estate..is termed an action of maills and duties. 1900 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark viii He carried a great sum about with him, being the rents and mails of all his New Milns property. 1969 J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman xxvi. 205 If one cherished one's crops or one's daughter's virginity one paid mail to the neighbourhood chieftains. < as lemmas |
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