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Tariff

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

'' Originally, a list or schedule showing the price or chai-ge affixed to each of a number of items. Latterly, a statute, or a commercial convention, as well as a list or schedule, exhibiting the kinds or the names of articles of merchandise designed for importation or exportation, upon which duties or customs are to be paid for the use of the general government. See Customs; Duty, 2. I [8 Bl. Com. 364-65. ' State V. Kemp. 34 Minn. 66 (1885). 'Williams v. Commonwealth, 91 Pa. 600 (1879); 1 Chitt. Cr. Law, 518. <E. S. § 804; Act 24 Sept. 1789; Clawson v. United States, 114 U. S. 487 (1885), cases. » Lovejoy v. United States, 138 U. S. 173 (1888); United States V. Rose, 6 F. E. 136 (1881); Clawson v. United States, 114 U. S. 487 (1885). »BB1. Com. 364. ' F. tariff e, a casting of accounts. Sp. tarifa, a list of prices, a book of rates. Arab, ta^rif, giving information, notification,

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