Definitionn. act of demanding or levying by force or authority
Last update: June 22, 2015
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Himself in August 1461 of wrongful exaction of manorial rights from the tenants of the episcopal manor of East Meon, Hants, were decided in the bishop's favour in parliament in the December following (Rot. [Please select]
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This new exaction was a tax called _ship money_. [Please select]
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Fines, escheats, reliefs, forfeitures, wardships, marriages--he heaped exaction on exaction, with mighty little result. [Please select]
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How seldom we are able to restore the bare exaction, to say nothing of the fourfold. [Please select]
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The sale of offices and exaction of fees occasioned serious abuses. [Please select]
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, the king in 1619 levied an exaction of one shilling a pound, equal to twenty per cent. [Please select]
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Poyser (too officiously, Tom thought) interfered to prevent the exaction of the penalty. [Please select]
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