imposts

A certain lord behaved very badly to his tenants, increasing the imposts upon them until life became a burden.

They are one in making war, and one in making peace; they are one in regulating commerce, and one in laying duties of imposts.

To lay and collect duties and imposts is an express power granted by the Constitution to Congress.

It was naturally to the effect that a return to the meagre scale of imposts under Louis XI.

Along with the special duties on wool there was an increase of the imposts on wine and general goods.