tax-tenth

Updated: May 21, 2025

This tax-tenth, which the state levied from private landed property, is to be clearly distinguished from the proprietor's tenth, which it imposed on the domain-land. Comp, my Staatsrecht, iii. 730. The mode of proceeding was apparently as follows. The Roman government fixed in the first instance the kind and the amount of the tax.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

This tax-tenth, which the state levied from private landed property, is to be clearly distinguished from the proprietor's tenth, which it imposed on the domain-land. Comp, my Staatsrecht, iii. 730. The mode of proceeding was apparently as follows. The Roman government fixed in the first instance the kind and the amount of the tax.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution