单词 | mixed tithes |
释义 | mixed tithesn. Now historical. With plural agreement: tithes which are partly personal and partly predial in nature (see quot. 1530). Also in singular.The commutation of tithes for money payments was regularized by the Tithes Commutation Acts of 1836–60. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > mixed mixed tithes1530 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxliiii A myxte tythe ys properly of calues lambes pygges and suche other that come parte of the grounde that they be fedde of, & parte of the kepynge industrye & ouersyght of the owners. a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) 490 Now of tithes there be three kindes, prediall, personall, and mixt. 1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Yyva Mixt Tythes, Decimæ mixtæ. Are those of Cheese, Milk, &c. and of the young of Beasts. 1794 ‘Pluralist’ Tithes iv. 71 Mixed tithes arise not immediately from the ground, but from things immediately nourished by the ground, as all cattle and poultry. 1892 Polit. Sci. Q. 7 248 Every mixed tithe is a small tithe, and small tithes are vicarial. 2002 www.lawcom.gov.uk 15 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Predial, or praedial, tithes were such as were produced immediately from the soil, as corn, hay, wood, fruit and herbs. Mixed tithes were such as did not proceed immediately from the soil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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