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Drawback :: Drawback (n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Impost :: Impost (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country..

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

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

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..

Assessment :: Assessment (n.) The specific sum levied or assessed.

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

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