fifteenths

fifteenths
Temporary aids issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by parliament. These aids which were said to have been first granted under Henry the Second for the crusades, were first levied in tenths and later in fifteenths were a form of tax representing that fraction of the valuation of all personal property. See 2 Bl Comm 309.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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