Toll

n.

In English law. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure Ot some part for permission of the rest. It has two significations: A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market; a tribute or custom paid for passage. Wharton. A Saxon word, signifying, properly, a payment in towns, markets, and fairs for goods and cattle bought and sold. It is a reasonable sum of money due to the owner of the fair or market, upon Bale of things tollable within the same. The word is used for a liberty as well to take as to be free from toll. Jacob.

In modern English law. A reasonable sum due to the lord of a fair or market for things sold there which are toliable. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 350, § 683. In contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. See Sands v. Manistee River Imp. Co., 123 U. S. 288, 8 Sup. Ot. 113, 31 L. Ed. 149; Wadsworth v. Smith, 11 Me. 283,'26 Am. Dec. 525 ; Pennsylvania Co.al Co. v. Delaware & H. Canui Co., 3 Abb. Dec. (N. Y.) 477; St. Louis v. Green. 7 Mo. App. 476; McNeal Pipe & Foundry Co. v. Howland, 111 N. C. 615, 16 S. E. 857, 20 In R. A. 743; Boyle v. Philadelphia & R. R. Co.., 54 Pa. 314.

— Toll and team. Words constantly associated with Saxon and old English grants of liberties to the lords of manors. Bract, fols. 56, 104b, l24b, 154b. They appear to have imported the privileges of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. See Team.

— Toll-gatherer. The officer who takes or collects toll.

— Toll-thorough. In English law. A toll for passing through a highway, or over a ferry or bridge. Cowell. A toll paid to a town for such a number of beasts, or for every beast that goes through the town, or over a bridge or ferry belonging to it. Com. Dig. "Toll," C. A toll claimed by an individual where he is bound to repair some particular highway. 3 Steph. Comm. 257. And see King v. Nicholson, 12 East, 340; Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 582, 9 In Ed. 773.

— Toll-traverse. In English law. A toll for passing over a private man's ground. Cowell. A toll for passing over the private soil of another, or for driving beasts across his ground. Cro. Eliz. 710.

— Toll-turn. In English law. A toil on beasts returning from a market. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 101, § 102. A toll paid at the return of beasts from fair or market, though they were not sold. Cowell.

v. To bar, defeat or take away; thus, to toll the entry means to deny or take away the right of entry.