scot and lot

American  

noun

1. British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.

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idioms

1. pay scot and lot, to pay in full; settle finally.

scot and lot British  

noun

1. history a municipal tax paid by burgesses and others that came to be regarded as a qualification for the borough franchise in parliamentary elections (until the Reform Act of 1832)

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Etymology

Origin of scot and lot

1275–1325; Middle English, rhyming phrase; see scot, lot

Example Sentences

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scot and lot

The first three groups were the free men who voted and paid the tax of scot and lot, and belonged to guilds.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

At Gatton the right of election lay in the hands of freeholders and householders paying scot and lot; but the only elector was Lord Monson, who returned two members.

From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

It's all very well now—it keeps one on, somehow, and you know it—but I'll pay you off scot and lot by-and-bye.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

The working classes were represented through those numerous constituencies in which the scot and lot franchise prevailed.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Every man paying scot and lot has a vote at Leicester.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron