leviable
Americanadjective
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that may be levied.
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liable or subject to a levy.
adjective
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(of taxes, tariffs, etc) liable to be levied
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(of goods, etc) liable to bear a levy; taxable
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I have consulted the Act of Parliament, and find it is leviable against those who enter after 1st January 1831.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
Duties are leviable on either imports or exports.
From Citizenship A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell
At present they are taxed by an extra duty upon their servants: for a male, £1. 5s.; for a female, 2s. 6d., above the usual duties leviable upon servants.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 by Various
For this popular military expedition, Parliament in 1327 granted the youthful king a Subsidy to the amount of one-twentieth leviable upon the value of nearly all kinds of property.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
The excise duties leviable are: Tobacco leaf, 4½cp. per oke, payable on transfer of leaf from grower to wholesale dealer.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan
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