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Assessment

ASSESS'MENT, n.
1. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation. An assessment is a valuation made by authorized persons according to their discretion, as opposed to a sum certain or determined by law. It may be a direct charge of the tax to be paid; or a valuation of the property of those who are to pay the tax, for the purpose of fixing the proportion which each man shall pay; on which valuation the law imposes a specific sum upon a given amount.
2. A tax or specific sum charged on the person or property.
3. The act of assessing; the act of determining the amount of damages by a jury.
assessment appears in definitions for these words:
Assess Assessment Cension Cessment Levy Scutage Taxable

 

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