Crossword clues for levied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levy \Lev"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Levied (l[e^]v"[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Levying.]
To raise, as a siege. [Obs.]
--Holland.-
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
Augustine . . . inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
--Fuller. -
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied.
--Shak. -
(Law)
To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.]
--Cowell.
--Blackstone.-
To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements.
--Blackstone.To levy war, to make or begin war; to take arms for attack; to attack.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastlevy)
WordNet
n. a charge imposed and collected
the act of drafting into military service [syn: levy en masse]
v. impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: impose]
cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, raise]
[also: levied]
See levy
Usage examples of "levied".
Direct taxes must be levied by the rule of apportionment and indirect taxes by the rule of uniformity.
A federal estate tax law which permitted a deduction for a like tax paid to a State was not rendered invalid by the fact that one State levied no such tax.
During the Prohibition Era, Congress levied a heavy tax upon liquor dealers who operated in violation of State law.
Under subsequent legislation, an excise is levied on interstate carriers and their employees, while by separate but parallel legislation a fund is created in the Treasury out of which pensions are paid along the lines of the original plan.
Congress had levied, according to the rule of uniformity, a specific tax upon all carriages, for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by, or for any person, for his own use, or to be let out for hire, or for the conveying of passengers.
Such a tax may be levied in proportion to population in the District of Columbia.
Accordingly, the Supreme Court sustained the penalty of fifty percent which Congress exacted for default in the payment of the direct tax on land in the aggregate amount of twenty million dollars which was levied and apportioned among the States during the Civil War.
A general tax laid on all property alike, including that intended for export, is not within the prohibition, if it is not levied on goods in course of exportation nor because of their intended exportation.
A property tax levied on warehouse receipts for whiskey exported to Germany was held unconstitutional as a tax on exports.
An Illinois tax on the local business, which was measured by the total capitalization of the company was sustained, it being shown further that the tax was little more than it would have been if levied at the same rate directly on the property of the company that was in Illinois.
Congress should levy a duty upon imports, which an existing commercial treaty declares shall not be levied, so that the treaty is in conflict with the act, does the former or the latter give the rule of decision in a judicial tribunal of the United States, in a case to which one rule or the other must be applied?
Nonetheless, the Court held that a Congressional waiver of immunity in the case of a government corporation did not mean that funds or property of the United States can be levied on to pay a judgment obtained against such a corporation as the result of waiver of immunity.
Similarly, a property tax may be levied against the lands under water which are owned by a person holding a license under the Federal Water Power Act.
State was denied the right to sell for taxes lands which the United States owned at the time the taxes were levied, but in which it had ceased to have any interest at the time of sale.
Nevertheless, a foreign corporation is in error when it contends that due process is denied by a franchise tax measured by income, which is levied, not upon net income from intrastate business alone, but on net income justly attributable to all classes of business done within the State, interstate and foreign, as well as intrastate business.