Middle Ages
They were usually levied by the owners of seigniories. This is a tax which is levied by government for transfer of goods from one state to another state. The taxes did not remain strictly municipal, for an ordinance of Cardinal Mazarin (in 1647) ordered the proceeds of the octroi to be paid into the public treasury, and at other times the government claimed a certain percentage of the product, but this practice was finally abandoned in 1852.
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