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  • inmypocketnottheirs
    inmypocketnottheirs Posts: 4,745 Forumite
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    Selden wrote: »
    ¿Que

    Where have you seen "taxed" used in that sense?

    In the same way the legal fees are taxed by the courts.

    Solamente porque no haveis escuchado esta palabra usado en tal manera no significa que no es correcto.
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  • inmypocketnottheirs
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    Selden wrote: »
    Acksherly taxation of costs became "detailed assessment" some years ago - see the Civil Procedure Rules 1998. And it never carried the meaning "reading" anyway - other than that any process based on documents requires reading to occur.

    I have never heard of someone "taxing" a contract, any more than anyone "taxes" the latest Harry Potter. Can you point to any evidence of the usage suggested?

    You asked, I answered.
    Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
     The Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away.
     I'm sorry, I don't apologise. That's just the way I am. Homer (Simpson)
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    Selden wrote: »
    Acksherly taxation of costs became "detailed assessment" some years ago - see the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.

    Well yes, even the OED now regards the usage as "Obs." as in 'obsolete'
    Selden wrote: »
    And it never carried the meaning "reading" anyway - other than that any process based on documents requires reading to occur.

    I have never heard of someone "taxing" a contract, any more than anyone "taxes" the latest Harry Potter. Can you point to any evidence of the usage suggested?

    I imagine it's possible that lawyers may have used the term 'taxing' to mean 'determine the meaning' of something (as opposed to its standard usage of 'determine the amount' of something). If so however, it appears to have escaped the attention of the OED and would thus now be super-obsolete rather than obsolete.
  • inmypocketnottheirs
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    edited 18 September 2011 at 3:26PM
    Selden wrote: »
    I am with you to the comma.

    I doubt it, somehow.
    Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
     The Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away.
     I'm sorry, I don't apologise. That's just the way I am. Homer (Simpson)
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