stallage

[ staw-lij ]

noun

, English Law.

1. the right to set up a stall in a fair or market.
2. rent paid for such a stall.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stallage¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-Latin stallāgium, Anglo-French estalage. See stall ¹, -age

Example Sentences

These different taxes were known in England by the names of passage, pontage, lastage, and stallage.

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Tolls, again, are sometimes held to include “stallage” and “picage,” which mean respectively the price for permission to erect stalls and to dig holes for posts in the market grounds.

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The law also provided that stallage might be levied on any house situated in the vicinity of a market, and kept open for business during the legal term of the said market.

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Any trade on a lord's land was subject to "passage", a payment on goods passing through, "stallage", a payment for setting up a stall or booth in a market, and "pontage", a payment for taking goods across a bridge.

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Location Of Some Of The Principal Fairs In The Thirteenth Century Tolls were collected for the advantage of the lord of the fair from all goods as they were brought into or taken out from the bounds of the fair, or at the time of their sale; stallage was paid for the rent of booths, fees were charged for the use of space, and for using the lord's weights and scales.

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