duties

duties
Obligations, whether imposed by the common law, statute, or contract; when a right is invaded, a duty is violated. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v Kurtz, 10 Ind App 60, 67, 37 NE 303. A particular kind of levy or tax made by a government on the importation of commodities into the country. 21 Am J2d Cust D § 1. Not merely duties on the act of importation, but duties on the thing imported. Brown v Maryland (US) 12 Wheat 419, 6 L Ed 678. See customs duties.

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