Passage taken from a district (7)
I believe the answer is:
extract
'passage' is the definition.
(extract is a kind of passage)
'from a district' is the wordplay.
'from' becomes 'ex' ('from' in Latin).
'a district' becomes 'tract' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ex'+'tract'='EXTRACT'
'taken' is the link.
This may not be right. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for extract that I've seen before include "Derive, distil" , "Remove - piece" , "Draw out - distillation" , "Pull or take out - maybe a tooth" , "Short piece" .)