exaction
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9.7
- noun
- /ɪɡˈzækʃən/
- Formal
:
exacción
- The government implemented new exactions to ensure funding for public services.
- exaction imposed
- exactions negotiated
- exactions imposed as conditions
Examples
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The police power of the state, however, includes the authority to impose conditions and exactions on private development.
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If he should break his day, what should I gain by the exaction of the forfeiture?
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We must treat it, then, as an exaction upon the students.
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A developer is required to comply with the exactions only if he proceeds with the project.
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If the exactions were too great, capital could move elsewhere, creating jurisdictional competition.
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Municipalities can obtain exactions through development agreements.
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85 Thus, the Court ruled that the exaction constituted a compensable taking and struck down the city regulation.
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A municipality, therefore, must have express statutory authority to impose exactions as part of its regulatory permitting process.
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In Nunziato, the municipal body failed to enact an enabling ordinance and thus the money constituted an impermissible exaction.
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"The Licensing Act," in the words of Lord Macaulay, "is condemned, not as a thing essentially evil, but on account of the petty grievances, the exactions, the jobs, the commercial restrictions, the domiciliary visits, which were incidental to it."
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
95
7.4
Getting money or other things using threats, force and misuse of power
Antonyms
How Coercive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exaction comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and agere 'to drive', the same root as the word exact. At first it meant 'to force out' or to take by force, so an exaction is a strong demand (often for money) made by someone in power.