tricesimation

A one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.

Noun

  1. A one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.
    • On 25 June a fifth emergency tax was introduced to cover the increased expense. This was the Tricesimation which was the ducal answer to the estates’ Accise. For the first time the duke had a tax that both approximated...
    • Between 1691 and 1724 cultivators were subject to the Tricesimation, a tax of one-thirtieth of grain and wine produced. - 2006, Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany, page 148:

Origin

From the German Tricesimation, ultimately from the Latin trīcēsimus (“thirtieth”).