More delightful still, as there is nobody authorized to assess taxes, the fortunate inhabitants do not pay any.

It is not by reference to date or country, or grade of material progress, that we assess the value of moral judgments, but by that subjective standard with which our own moral attainments supply us in regard to all that is equal or less, similar or dissimilar.

V. measure, mete; determine, assay; evaluate, value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate; standardize.

Supervisors meet and assess road labor, and sign road tax warrants.

The expenses for public improvements, for waterworks, sewers, street-lighting, etc., may take more money than it would be prudent to assess upon the community for immediate payment.

These men get a small gratuity from government, but the villagers also pay them a small sum, which they assess according to individual means.

I pay as large a tax as many of the men in A.P., and yet cannot say who shall assess my property for a single year.

Thus there was great danger that, having won the war from the Entente or having stood them off successfully until the fight was declared a draw, Germany would next attack the United States with the idea of collecting from this comparatively defenseless and very rich country the huge indemnity which she had planned to assess upon France and Russia.

In Massachusetts the state and the county make use of the machinery of the town government in order to assess and collect their taxes.

Each year, therefore, the town assessors know that a certain amount of money must be raised from the taxpayers of their town,partly for the town, partly for the county, partly for the state,and for the general convenience they usually assess it upon the taxpayers all at once.

Their duties were primarily to take care of the church property, assess the rates, and call the vestry-meetings.

There are three street commissioners with power to lay out streets and assess damages thereby occasioned.

Intellectual exercise gives tone to brain and character, and a really deep comprehension of war and its requirements postulates a certain philosophic mental education and bent, which makes it possible to assess the value of phenomena in their reciprocal relations, and to estimate correctly the imponderabilia.

Nobody cares how or what we suffer until afterward, when there will be polite expressions of regret, which the survivors will assess at a true valuation!

The fact that a significant section of the readership skips reading the editorial should make the editors sit up and assess the relevance of the editorials they write, or get written on their behalf.

If she suffered punishment involving loss of civil status under any other law which did not assess the penalty of confiscation, the husband acquired the dowry just as if she were dead.

Not only is this voluminous book a brilliantly written commentary on the opening months of the war, it is also infused with an inner sadness that could well be considered a precursor to the post-war "lost generation" myth, which is yet another indicator at how well Gibbs could gage the feel of the times and assess its impact on future developments in society.

This he could do according to the usual terms of agreement; but when it came to the point he found that the person called in to assess the damage put it at a much lower figure than he had himself; and who was to decide what was or was not a reasonable head of game?

The committee sympathised with him, but found that they must assess him according to his rent.

These provisions were found insufficient, and it was enacted early in the reign of Elizabeth, that if the parties were insensible to the clerical and episcopal admonitions, they should be bound over by the minister or bishop to the quarter sessions; where they were again to be admonished; and if they remained refractory, the justices and churchwardens were to assess them according to their discretion.

If, in the towns or villages, any one refuse to take the oaths demanded, the collectors shall assess his property according to general opinion, and on the deposition of his neighbors."

Thus when the township or city authorities assess and collect taxes from the individual citizens, they collect at one and the same time three distinct taxesthe State tax, the county tax, and the city or township tax.

Willingness to under-assess property often becomes thus the chief virtue of an assessor in the eyes of his political constituents.

The methods and machinery of assessment were (and still are) essentially local and simple, and have proved to be inadequate to reach or justly assess the larger and more complex corporate enterprises when their equipment and business extend beyond town, then county and, finally, state lines.

JURY, a body of citizens set to try a question of fact, or to assess damages; in England and Ireland a jury numbers 12, and its verdict must be unanimous; in Scotland the verdict is by majority, and the jury numbers 12 in civil and 15 in criminal cases.