单词 | petty custom |
释义 | petty customn. Chiefly Scottish. Now historical. A lesser toll or duty; spec. that formerly charged upon goods entering a town or burgh for sale at its markets. Frequently in plural. See also petit custom n. at petit adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] lastagea1387 petty custom1442 market-geld?a1500 market custom1844 1442 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 323 (MED) It be ordeyned..þat..merchaundyses passyng out of the land of Ireland and commyng into the same, paye to the Kyng pety custume in lyke wyse as it is used in Engelond. c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 43 The fermorairis of the petie customes of the toun. 1603 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1892) 514/1 The pittie custumes..togidder with the dewteis and custumes of weyage and metage. 1649 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 185 The pitie customes rowped for 173 pounds 6 s. 8d. for ane year. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) 497 Comptroller of the Cloth and Petty-Custom inward and outward. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aliens duty is otherwise called petty customs, and navigation duty. 1801 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VI. 514/2 (title) Articles of roup & tack of bell & petty customs. 1888 E. Dowden Transcripts 196 Chaucer loved the woolfells and leather of the Petty Customs only because they helped to save his purse from getting light. 1899 Juridical Rev. 11 302 With a proposal in the present Parliament for the abolition of the Petty Customs..it seems a fitting time to look back on the history of these taxes on produce, live-stock, and merchandise. 1995 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Sc. III. 332 [Burgh revenues came from, inter alia,]..petty customs or burgh tolls on grain and animals and other kinds of goods brought into the burgh for sale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1442 |
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