per centum

English

Etymology

Latin per + centum

Noun

(law, US, dated) percent
- 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
  On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
- 1887, Henry Beatty, A New Method of Computing Interest from Four Per Centum to Twelve Per Centum.
- 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787:
  Firearms, twenty-five per centum

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