exaction

• Extortion, outwresting, or exaction is a criminal offense, which occurs, when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. —  Sound Politics
• This new exaction was a tax called ship money It was devised by Chief Justice Finch and Attorney-General Noy, two subordinate, but unscrupulous tools of despotism, and designed to extort money from the inland counties, as well as from the cities, for furnishing ships--a demand that Elizabeth did not make, in all her power, even when threatened by the Spanish Armada. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• The settlers of Cornwall, led by Messrs. Bryan, Joseph Archer, and Gleadow, signed a petition to the crown, which complained that the exaction was partial and oppressive. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• How bitterly this exaction was resented even by the classes with whom the king had been most popular was seen in the protest which the citizens addressed to his successor against these "extortions and new impositions against the laws of God and man and the liberty and laws of this realm." —  History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540
• They voted the king a tenth of rents, or two shillings in the pound; which must have been very inaccurately levied, since it produced only thirty-one thousand four hundred and sixty pounds; and they added to this supply a whole fifteenth, and three quarters of another but as the king deemed these sums still unequal to the undertaking, he attempted to levy money by way of benevolence, a kind of exaction which, except during the reigns of Henry III. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.

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