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license
French licence: Latin licentia, freedom to act: licere, to be left free, to be allowable. Permission or authority: as, a license to do a particular thing. See Permit. "A mere license passes no interest...only makes an action lawful, which, without it, would have been unlawful". In popular understanding, a permission to do something which without the license would not be allowed. This is also the legal meaning. Evidence of permission to exercise a trade or calling in consequence of the payment of a tax or duty. A license issued under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1864, "to provide internal revenue", conveys no authority to carry on the business within a State. The requirement of paying for such a license is only a mode of imposing taxes on the business. License Tax Cases, The power to license is a police power, although it may also be exercised for the purpose of raising revenue.
Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)
Language : English