POUNDAGE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Poundage

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Poundage n.

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

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.)

(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.

See images of 'Poundage'

Etymology of 'Poundage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Poundage" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lord Byron, on March 22, paid to Crook & Armstrong L231 15s., "being the amount of three levies, poundage, and expenses," and also L25 13s. 6d., the amount of Crook & Armstrong's account. Crook & Armstrong settled with Levy, the Jew, who had lent Byron money; and also with the officer, who had been in possession twenty-three days, ...

— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles

Words linked to "Poundage" : impoundment, drugs bust, drug bust, jurisprudence, seizure, impounding, law