单词 | poll bill |
释义 | poll billn. Politics (now historical). A parliamentary bill for levying a poll tax.In quot. 1861: a bill regarding elections. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > commercial or revenue sizea1300 assizea1330 indiction1586 poll bill1641 frumentarian law1652 statute of the staple1657 statute of frauds1678 Gin Act1730 Pot Act1733 Stamp Act1765 Stamp-Bill1765 corn law1766 Bumboat Act1796 Maine law1852 permissive bill1864 lemon law1981 1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 304 Sir Simon d'Ewes his Speech concerning the Assessing of the Peers in the Poll-Bill. 1666 A. Marvell Let. 6 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 43 Forain excise, home excise, a Poll Bill,..haue been all more or lesse disputed. 1702 Proc. House Lords in Relation to Bill Publick Accts. 2 This Act was continu'd by the last clause in the Poll-Bill. 1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. ii. i. 134 All the other sums, which, by a poll-bill and new assessments, they levied for that use. 1861 W. E. Gladstone Diary 12 July (1978) VI. 46 Spoke on Danish Claims—and on Univ. Poll Bill. A hard enough day. 1906 Eng. Hist. Rev. 21 274 The poll bill by which part of the sum was to be raised. 1967 Hist. Jrnl. 6 161 Their sympathizers achieve prominence only once, in a debate on the poll bill on 10 July. 1996 S. Pincus Protestantism & Patriotism iv. xxiii. 376 In the event the Poll bill was belatedly passed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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