### donation, extraordinary tax
donation In general, the transfer of material possessions or non-material rights; in the historical sense it is usually a royal (land) grant. The king had the right to present lands from his actual possessions or those devolved on his right of bestowal - for example, due to the death of the former owner, who died without a heir - by his own will or at a request. The gifts of the Hungarian kings were not of feudal type, they gave rewards for a certain service, and the possibility of carrying out further services did not fall upon such possessions. These land grants - regulated by several laws - counted as special kinds of possessions under medieval Hungarian law. Official gifts could be given within the limits of a certain procedure, and the recording of land grants in deeds of gift or charters became widespread in the 13th century. ZSA extraordinary tax A tax (collecta), which was imposed on people by the king on certain occasions (e.g.: a military campaign). It had to be paid either in products or in money. It was paid by the people of royal, ecclesiastical and secular (private) estates. The common freemen had to pay the whole sum, servants had to pay half of it. Although the 1222 Golden Bull exempted royal servants and the noble from extraordinary taxes, in practice total exemption was guaranteed only by a special royal privilege. ZSA