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Questus est nobis

a nuisance descended or was alienated; whereas before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbour. Means 'hath complained to us', a writ against

Succession duties

been paid; and the (English) Finance Act, 1894, by s. 1 directed that this duty should not be levied in respect of property chargeable with estate duty (see that title). The (English) Act of 1888 imposed an

Subsidy

an aid, tax, or tribute granted to the Crown for the urgent occasions of the kingdom, to be levied on every subject o ability, according to the value of his lands or goods. The word 'subsidy' in

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Ship-money

Ship-money, an imposition formerly levied on port-towns and other places for fitting out ships for the defence of the realm. It had become

Sheriff-tooth

tenure by the service of providing entertainment for the sheriff at his county courts; a common tax, formerly levied for the sheriff's diet.

Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of

of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of the defendant, he has levied the plaintiffs' debt. The Rules of the Supreme Court provide that this writ may be issued and executed

Scutage

24, which abolished the military tenure, Steph. Com., ii., Ch. on 'Tenures.' See ESCUAGE. Means a monetary payment levied by the king or barons as a substitute for some or all of the knights to be supplied

Royalty

v. Karam Chand Thapar, (1995) 6 SCC 166. Royalty, is not a tax. Simply because the royalty is levied by reference to the quantity of the minerals produced and the impugned cess too is quantified by taking

Intoxicating liquor

being entitled to treatment as a freeholder, and to deduct 100 per cent. The charges are to be levied as part of the corresponding Excise Licence duties, and a deduction can be made in respect of them

Short-ford

the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same, he is to come to the tenement, and there take a stone, or some other

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