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When the rent reserved by a mining lease or the like consists of a royalty on every ton of minerals gotten in the mine, it is often called a ''tonnage-rent'" There is generally a dead rent in addition. Sweet … [Read more...] about TONNAGE-RENT

Payment of toll; money Charged or paid as toll; the liberty or franchise of charging toll. … [Read more...] about TOLLAGE

In old English law. A custom or impost upon wines and other merchandise exported, or imported, according to a certain. rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell. … [Read more...] about TONNAGIUM

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior of each other. In each of these societies there was. one chief or principal person, who, from … [Read more...] about TITHING

In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, … [Read more...] about TITULADA