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Extend

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Im English practices

To value the lands or tenements of a person bound bya statute or recognizance which has become forfeited, to their full extended value.

3 Bl. Comm. 420; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 131.

To execute the writ of evtent or extendi faclas, (gq. 0.) 2 Tidd, Pr. 1048, 1044, In taxation. Extending a tax consists in adding to the assessment roll the precise amount due from each person whose name appears thereon, “The subjects for taxation having been properly listed, and a basis for apportionment established, nothing will remain to fix a definite liability but to extend upon the list or roll the several proportionate amounts, as a charge against the several taxae bles.”

Cooley, Tax’n, (2d Ed.) 423.