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Definition of Imposts
1. impost [v] - See also: impost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imposts
Literary usage of Imposts
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. Taxation: Its Principles and Methods by Luigi Cossa, Horace White (1888)
"imposts in lieu of transfer-tax. These imposts (which are sometimes called
complementary to those on the transfers of property already described) are ..."
3. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"The Constitution vest« in Congress expressly "the power to lay and collect taxes,
duties, imposts, and excises," and "the power to regulate trade. ..."
4. The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century by George Sewall Boutwell (1895)
"No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties
on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing ..."
5. Taxation: Its Principles and Methods by Luigi Cossa, Horace White (1888)
"imposts in lieu of transfer-tax. These imposts (which are sometimes called
complementary to those on the transfers of property already described) are ..."
6. Constitutional Law in the United States by Emlin McClain (1910)
"Duties and imposts" cover levies on imports and exports of commodities ; and the
... In the exercise of the power to levy and collect duties and imposts, ..."
7. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1861)
"They provided, first, by an exception, that the States might, without the consent
of Congress, lay such duties and imposts as " may be absolutely necessary ..."
8. 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."14 § 265. ..."
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