Abatements

But I take it that Abatements at this day are rather odious than favored and I dont believe that this Plea would abate this Writ at

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

"Exemptions and Abatements" clause of the Act of Union in the policy of

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

I shall put down in the Exemptions and Abatements, 'Interrupted by wife.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 Various 1898

Abatements there were none, and families supporting life on two pounds a week might in some cases, perchance, be reconciled to the mulct by considering how equitably its incidence was graduated.

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

Abatements would reduce property taxes this year and credits would lower property taxes next year.

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_Drury-Lane_ under ſuch Abatements as that Manager thought proper, and ſuch as were in no degree equal to their Merit; and yet, at the beginning of this Seaſon, were diſmiſſed, after having been from their

The Case of Mrs. Clive Catherine Clive 1748

Winter, under ſuch Abatements of their Salaries as hardly afforded the greater Part of them a Subſiſtence, I was offered, by the Manager of

The Case of Mrs. Clive Catherine Clive 1748

When the Actors Affairs obliged 'em to return to the Theatres last Winter, under such Abatements of their Salaries as hardly afforded the greater Part of them a

The Case of Mrs. Clive, Submitted to the Publick Catherine 1744

-- Thus unwarily he gives a full Answer to his own Book. -- - further I must observe that in Recommendation of his Land Banks, he says, The Mother Country will sooner make Abatements in our Pay than take Lands.

Postscript, To a Discourse concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Mr Corbin Sold this very Crop for 10 3/8, 10d 1/2: 11d & 11d 1/2 hath been very common prices with Severall Gentn -- for intire Crops together I must likewise take notice to you tht I apprehend there is Some Errrs. in yor Acct particularly in tht you do not allow all the Abatements at the Custom house tht are due I've ever

Letter from Robert Carter to Francis Lee, 1705 September 17 1705