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Definition of Levying
1. levy [v] - See also: levy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levying
Literary usage of Levying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson, United States Circuit Court (4th circuit), Aaron Burr (1808)
"Well, if that would amount to levying war, it required nothing else to make it
amount to it. Yet gentlemen persist in saying it did require something else, ..."
2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"levying every execution not exceeding five pounds, - - - - 020 levying every
execution more than five pounds and not exceeding ten pounds, - 030 levying ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"To this the Chief Justice answered, " Is it not actually levying of war, ... Mr.
Phipps still insisted, "it would not be an actual levying of war, ..."
4. The Constitution of the United States by United States, Robert Desty, Albert Brunner (1884)
"J Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war af)ainst them,
... to levy war and actual levying of war are distinc^Prenses.10 So, ..."
5. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1890)
"The commonwealths are inhibited, without the consent of the legislature of the
United States, from levying and collecting any imposts or duties upon any ..."
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