# Hebegeld (weighing charges; tax collector quota; convenience marriage premium; lockage)

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## Definition

In older documents, the fee for weighing goods (CH: weighing; weighing: the determination of the weight) to the publicly appointed weighmaster (check weighman); the weighing money. - Earlier term for the share that a tax collector (rate collector) was allowed to retain from the collected amounts as his salary. - In some areas, a former payment by the municipality to a young man who married into a homestead inhabited only by women, especially after times of epidemic and war. - Fee for lifting a ship in a lock (sluice, floodgate) or on a ship lift (ship canal lift). - See sluice money, weighing money. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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