Duties
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
in a large sense, is a word very nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things.
Story on the Const. (Abr.) § 474.
In its more restrained sense it is often used as equivalent to customs, and in this sense is nearly synon3rmous with imposts. 'Id. ibid.