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Definition of Exaction
1. Noun. Act of demanding or levying by force or authority. "Exaction of various dues and fees"
Definition of Exaction
1. n. 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.
Definition of Exaction
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exaction
1. the act of exacting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaction
Literary usage of Exaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Due Process of Law Under the Federal Constitution by Lucius Polk McGehee (1906)
"6 exaction of Licenses. Police regulation may take the form of licenses exacted
as a condition precedent to entering into any business. ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"I'll. XXIII. Change of her name. exaction of an aid for the marriage. Influence of
Henry of England on Henry of Germany. ..."
3. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil by Austin Abbott (1880)
"Duress or exaction. 2. Mistake. 6. Fraud. 4. Forged or counterfeit paper. 8.
Subsequent promise to repay. 1. Failure of consideration. 1. The payment. ..."
4. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... citizens to a determination of opposing the exaction of tolls in the several
markets, by which they had been annually robbed to a considerable amount. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... jurisdiction over the church inds, and the exaction of fees and other payments
from them. From that time a growing movement for the deliverance of the ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... hardly anywhere affirmed, that the exaction of the plied to Evangelical objects.
For the point was tithe is reprehensible. Only the Ana- 2. ..."
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