HOUSE-DUTY

By SovConn | September 19, 2013

house-duty.Hist. English law. A tax first imposed in 1851 on inhabited houses. 14 & 15 Vict., ch. 36 (repealed 1924). • This tax replaced the window tax, which levied a duty on houses with more than six windows. See window tax under TAX.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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