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Definition of Excises
1. excise [v] - See also: excise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excises
Literary usage of Excises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitution of the United States: A Critical Discussion of Its Genesis by John Randolph Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker (1899)
"All taxation, therefore, which is not direct" taxation," must have been intended
to be a general term embraced in the words " duties, imposts and excises. ..."
2. Introduction to Public Finance by Carl Copping Plehn (1921)
"CHAPTER VI excises ' SECTION i. Comparison of excises and Customs. — Generally
speaking, indirect taxes are older than direct taxes. ..."
3. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"By section VIII of Article I of the Constitution, Congress is given the general
power " to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises ..."
4. Essentials in Civil Government: A Text-book for Use in Schools by Samuel Eagle Forman (1909)
"excises are taxes paid by manufacturers upon goods made in this country. Thus the
taxes upon liquors, tobacco, and cigars are excises. ..."
5. The Constitution of the United States by United States, Robert Desty, Albert J. Brunner (1884)
"1The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and
excises, to pay the debts and provide for the ..."
6. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen, Hugo Grotius (1886)
"excises of the towns, how to be demanded, and in what manner smugglers arc to be
... All imposts or rents and excises, levied for the support of the common ..."
7. American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century by Edward Stanwood (1903)
"On the 14th of September " the words, ' but all such duties, imposts and excises
shall be uniform throughout the United States,' were unanimously annexed to ..."
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