County Rate
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
An imposition levied on the occupiers of lands, and applied to many miscellaneous purposes, among which the most important are those of defraying the expenses connected with prisons, reimbursing to private parties the costs they have incurred in prosecuting publie offenders, and defraying the expenses of the county police.
See 15 & 16 Vict. ¢. 81.