Custom Duties
“Consuetudines/Tolls”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
customs · consuetudines · tolls
in the texts
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Established practices that subjects should maintain under monarchy.
You should be self-effacing in your attitude toward my authority, abiding by our customs and preserving the royal laws, but conspicuous in your services on behalf of the state and in the other duties which are assigned to you by my command.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The financial dues on imported and exported goods, and local tolls on trade, whose regulation and arbitrary increase Magna Carta's chapter addresses.
“Consuetudines” is in this passage used in its narrower, financial sense, relating to those duties on imports and exports still called “customs” at the present day, and to various local dues as well.
Every town in England, and many feudal magnates, by prescriptive usage or royal grant, levied payments on goods bought or sold at fairs and markets, or that entered the city gates, or were unloaded at river wharves, or traversed certain roads.