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Custom House

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Custom-house, the house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc. The principal British custom-house is in London, but there are custom-houses subordinte to it in all the considerable sea-ports

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