Octroi
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Fr. In French law. Originally, a duty, which, by the permission of the seigneur, any city was accustomed to collect on liquors and some other goods, brought within Its precincts, for the consumption of the Inhabitante. Afterwards appropriated to the use of the king. Steph. Leet. p.
361.