Levy : (noun)
1: a charge imposed and collected
2: the act of drafting into military service [syn: levy en
masse]
(verb)
1: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: impose]
2: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an
army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, raise]
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Levy : \Lev"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Levied (l[e^]v"[i^]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. Levying.]
1. To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] --Holland.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. (Law)
(a) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Levy : \Lev"y\ (-[y^]), n.; pl. Levies (-[i^]z). [A contr. of
elevenpence or elevenpenny bit.]
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 121/2
cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at
7s. 6d.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Levy : \Lev"y\, n. [F. lev['e]e, fr. lever to raise. See Lever,
and cf. Levee.]
1. The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the
levy of troops, taxes, etc.
A levy of all the men left under sixty. --Thirlwall.
2. That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. ``
The Irish levies.'' --Macaulay.
3. (Law) The taking or seizure of property on executions to
satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of
taxes; a collecting by execution.
Levy in mass [F. lev['e]e en masse], a requisition of all
able-bodied men for military service.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Levy : \Lev"y\, v. i.
To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the
operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on
property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by
seizing the goods.
To levy on goods and chattels, to take into custody or
seize specific property in satisfaction of a writ.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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LEVY, practice. A seizure (q.v.) the raising of the money for which an
execution has been issued.
2. In order to make a validLevy : on personal property, the sheriff must
have it within his power and control, or at least within his view, and if,
having it so, he makes a levy upon it, it will be good if followed up
afterwards within a reasonable time, by his taking possession in such
manner as to apprize everybody of the fact of its having been taken into
execution. 3 Rawle R. 405-6; 1 Whart. 377; 2 S. & R. 142; 1 Wash C. C. R.
29; 6 Watts, 468; 1 Whart. 116. The usual mode of making levy upon real
estate, is to describe the land which has been seised under the execution,
by metes and bounds, as in a deed of conveyance. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3391.
3. It is a general rule, that when a sufficient levy has been made, the
officer cannot make a second. 12 John. R. 208; 8 Cowen, R. 192.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Levy : (1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of
tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a
"great levy" of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the
population, to work for him by courses on Lebanon. Adoram
(12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger.
Frohndienst; Fr. corvee).
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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