devoir

devoir (d[schwa]-vwahrordev-wahr). Hist. A duty; a tax. — Also spelled devoire.

“Devoire is as much as to say a duty. It is used in the statute of 2 R. 2, cap. 3, where it is provided, that all the western merchants, being of the king’s amity, shall pay all manner of customs and subsidies, and other devoire of Calais.” Termes de la Ley 168 (1st Am. ed. 1812).


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