Toll

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. The compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person’s grain.

Quoted in Lake S. & M. R. Co. v. U. S., 93 U. S. 458, 23 L. Ed. 9G5.

The rate of taking toll for grinding is regulated by statute in most of the states.

See 2 Washb. R. P.; 6 Q. B. 31.

See Rates. A state has no power to regulate tolls upon a bridge connecting it with another state without the assent of congress and without the concurrence of such other state in the proposed tariff; Willamette I. B. Co. v. Hatch, 125 U. S. 1, 8 Sup. Ct. 811, 31 L. Ed. 629. In Anglo-Saxon, the right to take tallage of one’s villeins.

1 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 11.

To bar, defeat, or take away: as, to toll an entry into lands is to deny or take away the right of entry. To toll the statute of limitation is to show facts which remove its bar of the action.