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]