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Exaction :: Exaction (n.) That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice..

Levied :: Levied (imp. & p. p.) of Lev.

Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..

Replevin :: Replevin (n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.

Octroi :: Octroi (n.) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A duty levied on all importations.

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Brassage :: Brassage (n.) A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..

Replevied :: Replevied (imp. & p. p.) of Replev.

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax..

Levy :: Levy (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc..

Assessment :: Assessment (n.) A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property..

Tax :: Tax (n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

Leviable :: Leviable (a.) Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law..

Irreplevisable :: Irreplevisable (a.) Not capable of being replevied.

Repleviable :: Repleviable (a.) Capable of being replevied.

Chophouse :: Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

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