Toll

In old English law. To take away; to bar, or defeat.

n. 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 sale of things tollable within the same. The word is used for a liberty as well to take as to be free from toll. Jacob. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure of 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. WJiarton. There were several kinds of tolls. Tolltraverse was a claim to take toll for every beast driven across one's ground; or a toll which a man paid for passing over the soil of another in a way not a high street. Thorough-toll was where a town prescribes to have toll for such a number of beasts, or for every beast that goeth through their town, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at their cost. But the words toll-thorough and toll-traverse were used promiscuously. Turn-toll was toll paid for beasts driven to market to be sold, and brought back unsold. Jacob. Toll is a Saxon word, originally signifying a payment in towns, markets, or fairs for goods and cattle bought and sold there, and now popularly applied to the charges which canal and railroad companies require for the transportation of goods. It does not necessarily import an immediate payment, — only a compensation for the privilege or service granted: the period of payment depends on the understanding of the parties. Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., 29 Barb. 689; 1 Ke.yes, 72. The expression " immediate toll " signifies a charge made for travel upon a turnpike between two toll-gates, or, in other words, against one who comes upon the road, travels upon it, and turns off without requiring