Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

head money.

1. A tax on people who fit within a designated class; a poll tax. See capitation tax and poll tax under TAX. 2. A bounty offered by a government for a prisoner taken at sea during a naval engagement. ( This bounty is divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prize money. See PRIZE MONEY. 3. A tax or duty on shipowners, imposed by an 1882 federal statute, for every immigrant brought into the United States. - Also termed head tax. 4. Hist. A bounty or reward paid to a person who killed a bandit or outlaw and produced the head as evidence. See BOUNTY; REWARD.