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The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
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An appraisal or evaluation.
Examples of assessment in a Sentence
Talal's assessment of there being something wrong returned to her.
His assessment tore through her mind, digging up memories and laying them bare on the surface.
Mayer's assessment of Byrne's true abilities were kept to a minimum.
He was in better shape than half the office, by Mayer's assessment.
Evaluation techniques include clinical assessment and modified barium swallow procedure.
When we turn to the social divisions we find in Domesday and other documents classes of society in these districts bearing purely Norse names, dreng, karl, karlman, bonde, thrall, lysing, hold; in the system of taxation we have an assessment by carucates and not by hides and virgates, and the duodecimal rather than the decimal system of reckoning.
Assessment is also an ongoing activity which must be continually reviewed and reappraised to ensure that the care is meeting the patient 's needs.
The average real rate of assessment was $0.72 in 1880 and $074 in 1902.
The assessment is important because it will inform monitoring programs and provide a starting point for the river basin management planning process.
If any system deserves that name, it is that of village assessment, which still lingers in the memories of the people in the south.
Each field is measured, and an assessment placed upon it according to the quality of the soil without any attempt to fix the actual average produce.
The process of assessment began in 1789 and terminated in 1791.
Physical assessment will determine the presence or absence of bowel sounds, flatus, or abdominal distention.
Assessment During the program, you will progress from participant observer, via support teacher and sharing teacher, to lead teacher.
Suitable people will then have an assessment by a qualified assessor in order to obtain social services funding.
An assessment of the case for a national consumer advice helpline is available to read on-line.
Assessment for becoming a respite carer An initial visit to your home will take place to discuss the respite scheme.
The first step is to recognize the symptoms of sleep apnea followed by a physical assessment with a primary care physician.
Boiamund proposed to assess the tax, not according to the old conventional valuation but on the true value of the benefices at the time of assessment.
But from 1600 onwards the same persons fulfilled both functions, the object being, by giving the assessors the duty of collecting the tax, to lead to a duster and more conscientious assessment.
Athens, as the chosen leader, and supported no doubt by the synod, enforced the contributions of ships and money according to the assessment.
They have original jurisdiction in all cases in equity, in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll or municipal fine, and in all other cases at law in which the amount in controversy is $loo or more, in nearly all criminal cases, in matters of probate, in proceedings for divorce, and in various other cases; and they have appellate jurisdiction of cases originally tried before a justice of the peace or other inferior courts where the amount in controversy is more than $20.
To make it easier, the justiciar ordered the assessment to be made by a sworn jury in every hundred, and one may reasonably conjecture that these jurors were also elected.
The Peloponnesians had no reserve and no fixed revenue assessment.
Under this system the oppression and extortion practised under native rule gave place to a carefully regulated method of assessment.
The administrative officers were entrusted with the assessment and acted as arbitrators and referees in case of illegal exactions.
The existing assessment, made before the British occupation, had long been condemned by all competent authorities, but the inherent intricacies and difficulties of the problem had hitherto postponed a solution.
Rates and taxes on land are mostly levied according to a uniform system of assessment, the unit of which is called a Tonde Hartkorn.
In the island of Bornholm, the assessment is somewhat different, though the general state of agricultural holdings is the same as in other parts.
Under the Athenian naval confederacy, Paros paid the highest tribute of all the islands subject to Athens - 30 talents annually, according to the assessment of Olymp. 88, 4 (4 2 9 B.C.).
For parliamentary purposes some counties have been united, as Clackmannan and Kinross, Elgin and Nairn, Orkney and Shetland, and Peebles and Selkirk, and others divided, as Aberdeen, Ayr, Lanark, Perth and Renfrew, while others retain in certain respects their old subdivision, Lanarkshire for assessment purposes being still partitioned into the upper, middle and lower wards.
The system of revenue is based upon the general property tax; the local assessment of all real and personal property is required, with the aim of recording all kinds of property upon the assessment rolls.
As theland furnishes the main source of Indian revenue, so the assessment of the land tax is the main work of Indian administration.
In Bengal the assessment has been accomplished once and for all, but throughout the greater part of the rest of India the process is continually going on.
Hasting's great rival, Francis, was among those who urged the superior advantages of a permanent assessment.
The aggregate assessment was fixed at sikkd Rs.
According to this system, an assessment is made with the cultivating proprietor upon the land taken up for cultivation year by year.
This assessment holds good, without any possibility of modification, for a term of thirty years.
That in areas where the State takes the land revenue from the cultivators, the proposal to fix the assessment at one-fifth of the gross produce would result in the imposition of a greatly increased burden upon the people.
The rate is a little more than 2l% on all incomes exceeding £133 a year, and a little more than 2% on incomes exceeding £66, the minimum income liable to assessment having been raised in 1903 from £33.
But no principle of assessment existed, and the amount actually realized varied greatly from year to year.
The total assessment amounted to sikka Rs.26,800,989, or about 24 millions sterling.
This he effected by reductions in permanent expenditure, amounting in the aggregate to 12 millions sterling, as well as by augmenting the revenue from land that had escaped assessment, and from the opium of Malwa.
As a member of its committee on religion, he opposed the giving of special privileges to the Episcopal (or any other) church, and contended against a general assessment for the support of the churches of the state.
His petition of remonstrance against the proposed assessment, drawn up at the suggestion of George Nicholas (c. 1755-1799), was widely circulated and procured its defeat.
The attempt to raise a tithe for the crusade in 1189 failed, however, before a general resistance owing to an unfair assessment.
It is evident that William desired to know the financial resources of his kingdom, and probable that he wished to compare them with the existing assessment, which was one of considerable antiquity, though there are traces that it had been occasionally modified.
The great bulk of Domesday Book is devoted to the somewhat arid details of the assessment and valuation of rural estates, which were as yet the only important source of national wealth.
Taxation has been very erratic. From 1877 to 1893 the total assessment rose steadily from $3,453,946 to $238,722,417; it then fell at least partly owing to the depreciation in and uncertain values of mining property, and from 1894 to 1900 fluctuated between 192.2 and 216.8 million dollars; in 1901 it was raised to $465,874,288, and fluctuated in the years following; the estimated total assessment for 1907 was $365,000,000.
The assessment (Ti nmµa) included all the property of the contributor, whose accuracy in making full returns was safeguarded by the right given to other citizens to proceed against him for fraudulent under-valuation.