ESCUAGE, or SCUTAGE (Fr. écu for escu; Lat. scutum), in Feudal Law, service of the shield; a species of tenure by knight service, by which a tenant was bound at his own expense to follow his lord to war. This kind of service was afterwards commuted for a pecuniary satisfaction. Escuage, together with the other appendages of military tenures, was abolished in England by 12th Car. II. cap. 24.