In English law. Cer-taln duties which must be paid by thosu who clalm to exercise the elective franchlse within certain cltles and boroughs, before they are entltled to vote. It is said that the practlce became unlform 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
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
