Octroy

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Oktroy (masculine or neuter, also Oktroi, Octroi , from Latin auctoritas , "influence, reputation") originally referred to a permit that granted the imposed contractual partner certain rights. Today the noun is rarely used. The verb oktroyieren is widely used . With imposed laws, ordinances or measures are referred to by governments, authorities, offices, superiors or the like. be imposed. The word impose is a pleonasm - the prefix is ​​redundant.

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Oktroi in French

In France called octroi on commercial companies granted privileges - hence the term comes imposed trading companies : These were to companies , which the law of the single trade had been granted. Later, it was mainly specific cities that had received certain powers from the king . This included in particular the permission to levy a tax ( denier d'octroi , also known as octroi for short ) on goods brought into the local area . In this sense, the term “octroi” became common in France and Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

Obeyed kings

The term octroy is also used in connection with the so-called imposed kegs in North Friesland. These are kings that were not repressed by the ruler responsible, but by financially strong investors. From the 17th century onwards, the respective sovereigns were given the right in an octroy to carry out dikes at their own expense. In order to get a financial compensation for the assumed economic risk, further contractual conditions were laid down in the Octroy, such as B. the own administrative, tax and judicial freedom, but also the right to carry out further embankments in the newly emerging foreland in the future.

Obliged constitution

A number of constitutions of the 19th century in Germany were imposed . They were issued unilaterally by the monarch ("given", imposed) and did not arise through an agreement with a custodian or popular representative body. They belong to the era of constitutionalism in constitutional history. At that time, after the Congress of Vienna , constitutions were to be enacted on the basis of the German Federal Act (Art. XIII: "In all federal states a state constitution will take place.").

Late examples of enforced constitutions were the Austrian constitution of 1849, the Prussian constitution of 1848, and the Japanese Meiji constitution of 1889. However, monarchs also had to adhere to enforced constitutions. The constitution could only be changed in the way that the constitution itself provided for.

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Wiktionary: Oktroi  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ impose the Duden -online
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    Wiktionary: oktroyieren  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations