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). [Blacks Law 8th]