Compulsory Government Measures
- To force someone into military or national service by means of conscription
- Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
- Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
- A legal action, where property of a judgment debtor is taken for public sale to satisfy a monetary judgment
- An imposition of a fine
- To take money in order to pay off a tax liability
- To wage war
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