general exemption from taxation

general exemption from taxation
An exemption applicable to all persons of a certain class or of all property of a certain kind; a prerogative of the legislature except as controlled by constitutional provision. Eyers Woolen Co. v Gilsum, 84 NH 1, 146 A 511, 64 ALR 1196.

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