requisition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REQUISI'TION, noun [See Require.] Demand; application made as of right. Under the old confederation of the American states, congress often made requisitions on the states for money to supply the treasury; but they had no power to enforce their requisitions, and the states neglected or partially complied with them.
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