Pres*ta"tion (?), n. [L. praestatio a performing, paying, fr. praestare: cf. F. prestation.] O. Eng.Law
A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service.
Burrill.
Prestation money, a sum of money paid yearly by archdeacons and other dignitaries to their bishop.
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