Generally used for a monetary charge, contribution, fee, postage, price, tax, tariff. – The amount of money formerly paid for the carriage of persons and baggage by stagecoach. This sum regularly included also – the registration fee, here for the previous contractual provision of a seat in the carriage, – bridge money to be paid, causeway money, ford money, bribe money, gate money, – douceur for the brother-in-law (post coachman; postil[l]ion) and – other duties. – For the majority of private individuals, therefore, travel remained impossible because of the very high tax. Only the railroads – in Germany from about 1840 – made travel gradually affordable for everyone. – Official price; in particular, the prices for the services of physicians (medical fee regulation) and pharmacists (drug tariff: official price list and basis of calculation for all drugs prepared and dispensed in the pharmacy), which are set in accordance with the fee schedule issued. – For special ecclesiastical official acts such as baptism, marriage or abdication, the payment demanded. – For real estate loans, the determination of the mortgage lending value by an expert on behalf of the lending institution. – As an additional note to a stock exchange price, taxe means that the corresponding security was offered for sale but there was no demand for it: tax rate. – See bank charges, charadsch, brokerage, detz, fee, chancery money, button cutter, conduit money, margin, palmarium, commission, sportel, stafettengeld, dash note, tariff, remuneration, overdraft fee, cattle cutting fee, wagon master’s fee, delivery fee.
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