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Toller

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or TOLER (Law Fr. from Lat. f oiler e, q. v.) To take away; to bar or defeat. Discents que tollent entries, descents which toll or bar entries.

Litt. § 385.

TOLLERE (Lat.) In the civil law. To lift up or raise; to elevate; to build up. See "Servitus Altius non Tollendi." To take away; to dissolve or destroy. Tollitur omnis obligatio solutione ejus quod debetur, every obligation is dissolved by the payment of that which is due.

Inst. 3. 30, pr.

See Pleta, lib.

2, c. 60, § 5.

To put an end to an action. Calv. Lex. To quash, or annul a judgment. Id.; Spiegelius. To bring up, or educate.

Calv. Lex.; Adams, Rom. Ant. 61.