exaction

unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority)

he supervised the exaction of tolls at various ports.

illegal exaction of fees

exaction of a promise

exaction of a toll

In France, under the administration of the intendants, the application is not always more judicious, and the exaction is frequently the most cruel and oppressive.

Tom Saft—the rogue—took care to spill a little by accident; but Mrs. Poyser (too officiously, Tom thought) interfered to prevent the exaction of the penalty.

The rigorous exaction of it, accordingly, first occasioned, it is said, the total abandoning of the mines of St. Domingo, which have never been wrought since.

It was of the very essence of Lizzie's devotion that it sought instinctively the larger freedom of its object; she could not conceive of love under any form of exaction or compulsion.

His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says—" Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me" .

There was something about the luxury of the Welland house and the density of the Welland atmosphere, so charged with minute observances and exactions, that always stole into his system like a narcotic.

On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause the people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions.

In the midst of all the exactions of government, this capital has been silently and gradually accumulated by the private frugality and good conduct of individuals, by their universal, continual, and uninterrupted effort to better their own condition.