County Rate
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
County rate, an imposition levied on the occupiers of lands, and applied to many miscellaneous purposes; among which are those of defraying the expenses connected with prisons, reimbursing to private parties the costs they have incurred in prosecuting public offenders, and defraying the expenses of the county police. See (English) County Rate Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 81), and (English) Rating Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90).
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