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Poundage
Poundage Pound"age, n.
1. A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for
each pound; a commission.
2. A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted
to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by
aliens, more. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
3. (Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon
the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in
England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of
the pound. --Burrill. Bouvier.
Poundage
Poundage Pound"age, v. t.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
[R.]
PoundagePoundage Pound"age, n. [See 3d Pound.]
1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public
pound.
2. A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
Meaning of Poundage from wikipedia
- In
English law,
poundage was an ad
valorem (in
proportion to value)
customs duty
imposed on
imports and
exports at the rate of 1
shilling for
every pound...
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Obadiah Poundage Obadiah Poundage was the pen-name of a
London brewer of the 18th
century who published...
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Tonnage and
poundage were
English duties and
taxes first levied in
Edward II's
reign on
every tun (cask) of
imported wine,
which came
mostly from Spain...
- A
poundage quota, also
called a
marketing quota, is a
quantitative limit on the
amount of a
commodity that can be
marketed under the
provisions of a permanent...
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making it a
truly calibrated gripper.
IronMind developed an
approximate poundage-rating
system for its
grippers in 1993,
outlined in
Captains of
Crush Grippers:...
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using drop sets (aka dropsets,
descending sets,
strip sets, the multi-
poundage system the
stripping method, triple-drops, down the rack, or
running the...
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Commons limited its
authorisation for
royal collection of
tonnage and
poundage (two
varieties of
customs duties) to a year,
although previous sovereigns...
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Poundage quotas were
authorized by the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, so the
peanut poundage quota was the
supply control mechanism for the peanut...
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lands that
Henry owned as well as from
customs duties like
tonnage and
poundage,
granted by
Parliament to the King for life.
During Henry's
reign the revenues...
- The
Tariff Act of 1789 was the
first major piece of
legislation p****ed in the
United States after the
ratification of the
United States Constitution. It...
