Toll

Toll at common law includes a large class of dues and exactions that are in the nature of fixed rights, and cannot be lawfully exceeded, and are generally, if not universally, connected with some franchise which involves duties as well as privileges of a general or public nature, such as those which belong to fairs, markets, mills, turnpikes, ferries and bridges.

41 Mich. 279.

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

See 2 Washb. Real Prop.; 6 Q. B. 31.

A Saxon word originally signifying a payment in towns, markets, or fairs for goods and cattle bought and sold there. It is now also popularly applied to the charges which canal and railroad companies require for the transportation of goods; but it does not necessarily import an immediate payment. The word means nothing more than a compensation for the privilege or service granted; and the period of payment depends, as in other cases, on the understanding of the parties. Various definitions of the term collected, and the nature of tolls, considered.

29 Barb. (N. Y.) 589; 3 Abb. Ct. App. Dec. (N. Y.) 1 Keys (N. Y.) 72.

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 limitations is to interrupt its running.

See Tolls.