Ad valõrem. A sliding scale of duty on excisable articles, regulated according to their market value.
Thus, tea at 4s. per pound would pay more duty than tea at 2s. per pound.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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