Scot was a rateable proportion in the payments levied from the town for local or national purposes.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
For argument's sake he would suppose this to be true, and that there would be loss; but would it not be fair that the money should be lodged in the hands of a third party, with authority to pay back at the expiration of the two years whatever rateable sum the master could prove himself to have lost?
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
And when a man desires the most delicious food he does not consider where he has tasted such food in the past, but rather the situation and probable rateable value of the eating-house which will provide him with it.
"On Something"
H. Belloc