DEVOIR

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

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