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Octroi

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.