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scot and lot

noun

  1. British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.


scot and lot

noun

  1. history a municipal tax paid by burgesses and others that came to be regarded as a qualification for the borough franchise in parliamentary elections (until the Reform Act of 1832)
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Origin of scot and lot1

1275–1325; Middle English, rhyming phrase; scot, lot
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Origin of scot and lot1

C13 scot tax, from Germanic; compare Old Norse skot; related to Old French escot (French édz ) + lot (in the obsolete sense: tax)
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. pay scot and lot, to pay in full; settle finally.
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Example Sentences

Speaking of himself before the Justice, he says, “I dwell, Sir, at the sign of the Water-tankard, hard by the Green Lattice; I have paid scot and lot there many time this eighteen years.”

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We will none of your lurdans that can not pay scot and lot—your runagates that fall under the statute of outcry.

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Occasionally she visited the town, to the consternation of its worthy citizens, who never failed to presage evil to "scot and lot" from her presence.

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Another point—he had always believed and practised the sterling rule of "paying scot and lot as you go."

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All parliamentary representatives were to be elected by persons “paying scot and lot.”

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