Assessed
[ə'sest]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Assess
Checker: Wyatt
Examples
- The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They could not, therefore, be assessed according to any rent roll. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The inferior ranks of people in the provinces are assessed in the second. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No man subject to such a tax, it is evident, can ever be certain, before he is assessed, of what he is to pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The largest falls upon those subject to the taille, who are assessed to the capitation at so much a-pound of what they pay to that other tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In 1666, the generality of Montauban was assessed to the real or predial taille, according, it is said, to a very exact survey and valuation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Wyatt