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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] teogotha tenth; akin to Middle Low German tegede tenth, Old English tīen ten — more at [[ten]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century Before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a [[tax]] especially for the [[support]] of a [[religious]] [[establishment]]
*2: the [[obligation]] represented by individual tithes
*3: tenth; broadly : a small part
*4: a small tax or levy
==Description==
A '''tithe''' (pronounced /ˈtaɪð/; from Old English teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a (usually) [[voluntary]] contribution or as a levy or [[tax]]-like payment (technically not a tax as it is not paid to a level of [[government]]), usually to [[support]] a religious [[organization]]. Today, tithes (or tithing) are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required to be paid in kind, such as [[agricultural]] products (that grown of the [[land]], or fruit of the tree). Several European countries operate a [[formal]] process linked to the [[tax]] system allowing some churches to assess tithes.
==Juridical sense==
"Tithing" also has unrelated [[economic]] and [[juridical]] senses, dating back to the Early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]. The non-[[economic]], [[juridical]] sense of "tithing" is in [[reference]] to the Anglo-Norman [[practice]] of dividing the [[population]] into groups of [[ten]] men who were [[responsible]] for policing each other; if one broke the [[law]], the other nine were responsible for chasing him down, or would face legal punishment themselves. In his 1595 essay ''A View of the Present State of Ireland'', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser Edmund Spenser], best noted for his colossal [[poem]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queen The Faerie Queen] recommended that the Anglo-Norman practice of tithing be revived and implemented in the [[rebellious]] territories of Ireland. The Anglo-Norman [[practice]] of tithing was also linked to the [[evolution]] of the [[juridical]] concept of [[murder]]; the penalties for killing a Norman were four times as great as the penalties for killing anyone else. It was presumed that any [[person]] murdered should be considered as if he were Norman, unless it could be proven otherwise. The higher communal payment of blood money ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wergild wergild]) for killing a Norman bore the special designation murdrum, from which the modern [[English]] [[word]] "[[murder]]" is derived.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe]
[[Category: Economics]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] teogotha tenth; akin to Middle Low German tegede tenth, Old English tīen ten — more at [[ten]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century Before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a [[tax]] especially for the [[support]] of a [[religious]] [[establishment]]
*2: the [[obligation]] represented by individual tithes
*3: tenth; broadly : a small part
*4: a small tax or levy
==Description==
A '''tithe''' (pronounced /ˈtaɪð/; from Old English teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a (usually) [[voluntary]] contribution or as a levy or [[tax]]-like payment (technically not a tax as it is not paid to a level of [[government]]), usually to [[support]] a religious [[organization]]. Today, tithes (or tithing) are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required to be paid in kind, such as [[agricultural]] products (that grown of the [[land]], or fruit of the tree). Several European countries operate a [[formal]] process linked to the [[tax]] system allowing some churches to assess tithes.
==Juridical sense==
"Tithing" also has unrelated [[economic]] and [[juridical]] senses, dating back to the Early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]. The non-[[economic]], [[juridical]] sense of "tithing" is in [[reference]] to the Anglo-Norman [[practice]] of dividing the [[population]] into groups of [[ten]] men who were [[responsible]] for policing each other; if one broke the [[law]], the other nine were responsible for chasing him down, or would face legal punishment themselves. In his 1595 essay ''A View of the Present State of Ireland'', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser Edmund Spenser], best noted for his colossal [[poem]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queen The Faerie Queen] recommended that the Anglo-Norman practice of tithing be revived and implemented in the [[rebellious]] territories of Ireland. The Anglo-Norman [[practice]] of tithing was also linked to the [[evolution]] of the [[juridical]] concept of [[murder]]; the penalties for killing a Norman were four times as great as the penalties for killing anyone else. It was presumed that any [[person]] murdered should be considered as if he were Norman, unless it could be proven otherwise. The higher communal payment of blood money ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wergild wergild]) for killing a Norman bore the special designation murdrum, from which the modern [[English]] [[word]] "[[murder]]" is derived.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe]
[[Category: Economics]]