illegally exacted
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From 74 U.S. 122 - Nichols v. United States · 1868Most cited · 201 citing opinions
where no protest was made the duties are not illegally exacted in the legal sense of the term; if the party acquiesces, and does not by his protest appeal to the judicial tribunals, the duty paid is not illegally exacted, but is paid in obedience to the decision of the tribunal to which the law had confided the power of deciding the question