LOT AND SCOT
\lˈɒt and skˈɒt], \lˈɒt and skˈɒt], \l_ˈɒ_t a_n_d s_k_ˈɒ_t]\
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In English law. Certain duties which must be paid by those who claim to exercise the elective franchise within certain cities and boroughs, before they are entitled to vote. It is said that the practice became uniform to refer to the poor- rate as a register of "scot and lot" voters; so that the term, when employed to define a right of election, meant only the payment by a parishioner of the sum to which he was assessed on the poor-rate. Brown.
By Henry Campbell Black
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