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Imposts

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise.

Federalist, No. 30; Elliott, Deb. 289; Story, Const. § 949; 12 Wheaton (U. S.) 437.

In a larger sense it is any tax or imposition.

7 Wallace (U. S.) 445.