Subsidy

In English Law. An aid, tax, or tribute granted by parliament to the king for the urgent occasions of the kingdom, to be levied on every subject of ability, according to the value of his lands or goods. Jacob, Law Diet. In International Law. The assistance given in money by one nation to another to enable it the better to carry on a war, when such nation does not join directly in the war. Yattel, liv.

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See Neutrality; Subvention. Aid given by the government to some commercial enterprise, as to a steamship line. The appropriations of money by the act of 1895, to be paid to certain manufacturers and producers of sugar who had complied with the provisions of the act of 1890, were held to be within the power of congress to make; U. S. v. Realty Co., 163 U. S. 427, 16 Sup. Ct. 1120, 41 L. Ed. 215. An intention to surrender the right to demand the carriage of mails over subsidized railroads at reasonable rates, assumed in construing a statute of the United States, is opposed to the established policy of congress; Wis. C. R. Co. v. U. S., 164 U. S. 190, 17 Sup. Ct. 45, 41 L. Ed. 399.