Tariff

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Customs, duties, toll, or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government are called "tariff." The rate of customs, etc., also bears this name, and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the "tariff," TASSARE (Law Lat.)

In old English law. To stack; to heap up. TASSUM (Tassa. L. Lat) In old English law. A heap; a hay-mow, or hay-stack. TAURI LIBER! LIBERTAS. A common

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A schedule or tabulated rate list.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Customs, duties, toll, or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government; the rate of customs, etc., also bears this name, and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the tariff. die day following its passage, unless therein otherwise specially provided. See Reciprocity; Tax; Philippines; Statute.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A cartel of commerce, a book of rates, a table or catalogue, drawn usually in alphabetical order, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, as settled by authority or agreed on between the several princes and states that hold commerce together. Enc. Lond.; Railway Co. v. Cushman, 92 Tex. 623, 50 S. W. 1009. The list or schedule of articles on which a duty is imposed upon their importation into the United States, with the rates at which they are severally taxed. Also the custom or duty payable on such articles. And, derivatively, the system or principle of imposing duties on the importation of foreign merchandise.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

'' Originally, a list or schedule showing the price or chai-ge affixed to each of a number of items. Latterly, a statute, or a commercial convention, as well as a list or schedule, exhibiting the kinds or the names of articles of merchandise designed for importation or exportation, upon which duties or customs are to be paid for the use of the general government. See Customs; Duty, 2. I [8 Bl. Com. 364-65. ' State V. Kemp. 34 Minn. 66 (1885). 'Williams v. Commonwealth, 91 Pa. 600 (1879); 1 Chitt. Cr. Law, 518. <E. S. § 804; Act 24 Sept. 1789; Clawson v. United States, 114 U. S. 487 (1885), cases. » Lovejoy v. United States, 138 U. S. 173 (1888); United States V. Rose, 6 F. E. 136 (1881); Clawson v. United States, 114 U. S. 487 (1885). »BB1. Com. 364. ' F. tariff e, a casting of accounts. Sp. tarifa, a list of prices, a book of rates. Arab, ta^rif, giving information, notification,

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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Originally, an enumeration, list, schedule, or table, setting forth numerous subjects in some systematic order, and so as to show charges, prices, or rates affixed to each item. Hence it has come to be used as the name of an act of legislation, or convention between states, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, as settled by authority.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

customs, duties, toll or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government, is called tariff; the rate of customs, &c. also bears this name, and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the tariff. For the tariff of duties im- - posed on the importation of foreign - merchandise into the United States, see 3 Story’s L. U. 8. 1587, 1617, 1633, 1705, 1706, 1708, 1740, 1942,