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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONTRIBUTIONS, public law. Taxes or money contributed to the support of the 
  government. 
       2. Contributions are of three kinds, namely: first, those which arise 
  from persons on account of their property, real or personal, or which are 
  imposed upon their industry; those which are laid on and paid by real 
  estate without regard to its owner; and those to which personal property 


  is subject, in its transmission from hand to hand, without regard to the 
  owner. See Domat, Dr. Publ. 1. 1, t. 5, s. 2, n. 2. 
       3. this is a generic term which includes all kinds of impositions for 
  the public benefit. See Duties; Imports; Taxes. 
       4. By contributions is also meant forced levy of money or property by a 
  belligerent in a hostile country which he occupies, by which means the 
  country is made to contribute to the support of the army of occupation. 
  These contributions are usually taken instead of pillage. Vatt. Dr. des 
  Gens, liv. 3, 9, Sec. 165; Id. liv. 4, c. 3, Sec. 29. 
  
  

















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