stallage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.

   Stallage was due from every merchant who set up a booth.

2. 2
   noun

   The dues levied for the erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.

   Stallage and the like payments are made in respect of some user of the soil beyond the mere entry into the market; for no one has a right to erect a stall or appropriate part of the market place as a standing without making a satisfaction for it to the owner of the soil […]

3. 3
   noun

   dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw

   Stallage was due from every merchant who set up a booth.

From stall + -age? Compare Old French estallange, of German origin.

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