butlerage

American

[buht-ler-ij] / ˈbʌt lər ɪdʒ /

noun

Old English Law.

the privilege allowed the king's butler to take a certain quantity of every cask of wine imported by an alien.

Etymology

Origin of butlerage

First recorded in 1485–95; butler + -age

Example Sentences

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There is also another antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines.

From Project Gutenberg

Butlerage ceased to be levied in 1809, by the Customs Consolidation Act of that year.

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In like manner the Duke of Grafton was indemnified in 1806 for loss incurred through the resumption of the "prisage and butlerage" of wines; nor was Lord Gwydir permitted to suffer by the compulsory surrender of his lease in the mooring-chains.

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