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Exaction
Exaction Ex*ac"tion, n. [L. exactio: cf. F. exaction.]
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay
or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by
force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to
tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.
Take away your exactions from my people. --Ezek.
xlv. 9.
Daily new exactions are devised. --Shak.
Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials.
--Bancroft.
2. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or
contribution, demanded or levied with severity or
injustice. --Daniel.
Meaning of Exaction from wikipedia
- An
exaction is a
concept in US real
property law
where a
condition for
development is
imposed on a
parcel of land that
requires the
developer to mitigate...
-
property to halt ****ure
violence is
sufficient to
commit the offense.
Exaction refers not only to
extortion or the
demanding and
obtaining of something...
- has
identified several criteria for
identifying when an
exaction,
including monetary exactions,
becomes a
taking that
requires compensation under the Fifth...
-
taken from the
peasant producers by way of
official taxes and
unofficial exactions. Moreover,
payments were
exacted in money, and this
required a well-regulated...
- new set of
ideals that
focus on love and
humility rather than
force and
exaction. They echo the
highest ideals of Jesus'
teachings on
spirituality and comp****ion...
-
maintenance of the
Government which protects him, it is
plain that the
exaction of more than this is
indefensible extortion and a
culpable betrayal of...
- been
diminished by "the
unreasonable and
uncharitable usurpations and
exactions" of the Pope. The King had much
support from the
Church under Cranmer...
-
Edward a "re****tion for avarice".
Richard III
attempted to make
similar exactions, but met with
stringent condemnations of the
taxes from
Parliament which...
- po****tion. By
January 1808,
there were
executions of
persons who
resisted the
exactions of the French. The
situation was dangerous, but it
would need a trigger...
- to try
cases of
sedition by a
panel of
three judges and
without juries,
exaction of
securities from suspects,
governmental overseeing of
residences of suspects...
