Sentence examples for exacted from from inspiring English sources

If the defendants exacted from them an unlawful charge, the exaction was a tort, for which the plaintiffs were entitled, as for other torts, to compensation from the wrongdoer.

The first structure was paid for by fines and by tolls exacted from its passengers.

It is the biggest penalty the commission has yet exacted from a specific industry.

The taxes exacted from the petitioners were laid under Iowa Code, § 1322-1a, Supplement 1913.

Levies were made throughout Italy, arms demanded, and money exacted from the municipal towns, and violently taken from the temples.

Evolving from the rule exacted from Free University, several attempts are taken and then new series of space is generated.

Not even "three pence" contribution was thus to be exacted from [p504] any citizen for such a purpose.

The petitioners are entitled to obtain in these suits refund of the excess of taxes exacted from them.

This is understandable, given that immediate disclosure is not the objective of, but is exacted from, the patentee.

Copenhagen, however, continued to prosper on the profits from tolls exacted from passing shipping, until tolls were abolished in 1857.

If a zamindar held the whole estate, the settlement was with him; otherwise, payment was exacted from individual cultivators.