Exaction

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exaction \Ex*ac"tion\, n. [L. exactio: cf. F. exaction.]
     1. 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.
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              Take away your exactions from my people. --Ezek.
                                                    xlv. 9.
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              Daily new exactions are devised.      --Shak.
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              Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials.
                                                    --Bancroft.
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     2. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or
        contribution, demanded or levied with severity or
        injustice. --Daniel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exaction
       n : act of demanding or levying by force or authority; "exaction
           of tribute"; "exaction of various dues and fees"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "exaction":
     admission, admission fee, anchorage, blackmail, bother, brokerage,
     burdening, call, call for, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges,
     charging, claim, contribution, cover charge, demand, demand for,
     dockage, draft, drain, dues, duty, entrance fee, exactment,
     extortion, extortionate demand, fare, fee, freighting,
     heavy demand, hire, imposing an onus, imposition, impost,
     inconsiderateness, inconvenience, indent, infliction,
     insistent demand, laying on, levy, license fee, loading,
     loading down, nonnegotiable demand, notice, obtrusiveness, order,
     pilotage, portage, presumptuousness, rending, requirement,
     requisition, ripping, rush, rush order, salvage, scot,
     scot and lot, shot, storage, tasking, tax, taxing, tearing, toll,
     towage, tribute, trouble, ultimatum, unwarranted demand, warning,
     weighting, wharfage, wrench, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring,
     wringing
  
  

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

  EXACTION, torts. A willful wrong done by an officer, or by one who, under 
  color of his office, takes more fee or pay for his services than what the 
  law allows. Between extortion and exaction there is this difference; that in 
  the former case the officer extorts more than his due, when something is due 
  to him; in the latter, he exacts what is not his due, when there is nothing 
  due to him. Wishard; Co. Litt. 368.