Definition of Escuge
Es"cu*age (?; 48), n. [OF.
escuage, F. écuage, from OF. escu shield,
F. écu. See Esquire.] (Feud. Law)
Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a
tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was
afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also
scutage. Blackstone.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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