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Tallage
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TALLAGE. This word is derived from the French tailler, and signifies literally to cut. In England it is used to signify subsidies, taxes, customs, and indeed any imposition whatever by the government for the purpose of raising a revenue. Bac. Ab. Smuggling, &c. B; Fortesc. De Laud. 26; Madd. Exch. ch. 17; 2 Inst. 531, 532 Spelm. Gl. h.v.



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la taille de ses arbres seculaires, l'epaisseur de son feuillage, la barriere de ses broussailles la font haute, parfonde, espesse, antieve, oscure, ramue, foillue, noire, espineuse, anieuse.
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Des pierres de taille parent les tours porteurs a l'exterieur comme a l'interieur ainsi que les planchers et les escaliers interieurs.
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After a decade of wrangling between the city's royal courts, who wanted wholesale changes in the electoral format; the mairie, which opposed any "encroachments" on its privileges; and the crown, the right to vote was restricted to those who had paid a minimum taille of four livres for three consecutive years.
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