These market dues still survive in the "octroi" collected at the gates of some European cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

They were at once presented with; the stamp - duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11] Reference

He receives, as octroi, from eight to fifteen cubits of.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

As to the octroi system, it is bad beyond all conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

The customs and the octroi, if there be any, have been avoided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

The cemetery was a long way off — was out beyond the octroi-house and the city walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Tales of Old Strasbourg] Reference

Further, every city had its own octroi duties, customs, ferry dues, highway and water rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Can it be true (si) that the gate or octroi duty (el impuesto de consumos) is going to be abolished in Spain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference

We were very glad indeed to get to Madrid, though dismayed by apprehensions of the octroi which we felt sure awaited us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

The 5-km stretch from Ramwadi octroi post to Chandannagar on the Pune-Nagar road highway is one of the worst roads in Pune.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of the worst roads in Pune] Reference

Well (pues) the Government has presented a bill to that effect and I hope we shall soon see the octroi offices (fielatos) abolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference

A few miles and a few minutes more and we were in the embrace of the loveliest of them, which was at first the clutch on the octroi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

Very different, however, is the old-fashioned system of octroi, of which the poorer classes complain bitterly, still in vogue not only in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

Expect price rise as octroi tariff rise is on the cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Emergency drill to prepare consumers for water shortage] Reference

Rajah Rustum held his peace; lowered octroi dues a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

⇒ NMC slaps Rs 1. 1-cr penalty on ICICI Bank for evading octroi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Times] Reference

Sugar Association seeks removal of octroi, APMC cess to curb prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Not taking Rajasthan lightly: Ganguly] Reference

Gujarat fails to compensate Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's for octroi abolition.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Maharashtra government to consider removal of octroi duty and APMC cess, which will.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Not taking Rajasthan lightly: Ganguly] Reference

After octroi, property tax is a major source of revenue for the municipal corporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

The goods were being brought into the city after evading octroi worth approximately Rs 10,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

This is part of AMC's innovative strategy to compensate for revenue loss after abolition of octroi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

The total average octroi - collected from the five nakas and from crude oil - amounts to Rs 8 crore per day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines] Reference

Nearly 90 p.c. of the taxation was drawn from octroi, a hardy plant which has survived much economic criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference

Acting municipal commissioner RA Rajeev remained hopeful, however, of an increase in octroi collections in the coming months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

The flying squad laid a trap at the Wadi octroi post on Amravati Road, but the truck entered the city through some other route.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

We have been told that it is the elected members themselves who have suggested that octroi rates be hiked, but in public they oppose it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference