See Also: EXEMPTS(law)
Short-term tax exempts(money)
Short-term tax exempts(finance)

Tory (sh) and EXEMPTS (law)


Tory (sh)




Member of a political group in England, especially in the 18th century.

Originally an Irish term for an outlaw, the name was applied as a term of Abuse to those who supported the hereditary right of James, the Catholic duke of York (later James II), to succeed to the throne of England. They were opposed by the Whigs in that struggle (1679), but the Tories later modified their doctrine of divine-right absolutism. They came to represent the resistance, mainly by the country gentry, to religious toleration and foreign entanglements. The Tories' political power diminished after Viscount Bolingbroke, a leading Tory, fled to France in 1715; Tory sentiment subsequently survived in the unsuccessful Jacobite movement. After 1784, William Pitt the Younger emerged as the leader of a new Tory party, representing the country gentry, merchants, and administrators. After 1815, the party gradually evolved into the Conservative Party, whose members are still referred to as Tories.


EXEMPTS (law)


EXEMPTS. Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others. of duties imposed upon others. 2. By the Act of Congress of May 8, 1792, 1 Story, L. U. S. 252, it is 2. By the Act of Congress of May 8, 1792, 1 Story, L. U. S. 252, it is provided, Sec. 2. That the vice-president of the United States the officers, provided, Sec. 2. That the vice-president of the United States the officers, judicial and executive, of the government of the United States; the members judicial and executive, of the government of the United States; the members of both houses of congress, and their respective officers; all custom-house of both houses of congress, and their respective officers; all custom-house officers, with their clerks; all post officers, and stage Drivers, who are officers, with their clerks; all post officers, and stage Drivers, who are employed in the care and conveyance of the mail of the post office of the employed in the care and conveyance of the mail of the post office of the United States; all ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post road; all United States; all ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post road; all inspectors of exports; all pilots; all mariners, actually employed in the inspectors of exports; all pilots; all mariners, actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; and all sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; and all persons who now are, or may hereafter be, exempted by the laws of the persons who now are, or may hereafter be, exempted by the laws of the respective states, Shall be, and are hereby, exempted from militia duty, respective states, Shall be, and are hereby, exempted from militia duty, notwithstanding their being above the age of eighteen, and under the age of notwithstanding their being above the age of eighteen, and under the age of forty-five years. forty-five years.