Toll
Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A duty imposed on travelers and goods passing on public ways.
In English law. A reasonable sura due to the lord of a fair or market for tollable things sold there, Toll-thoroug'h: a toll for passing through a highway, or over a ferry or bridge. Toll-traverse: a toll for passing over a private nnan's ground. Toll-turn: a toll on beasts returning from a market.
In Saxon and old English law. A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of a manor; the liberty of having a fair or market; a custom or port duty; a lord's right of having tallage of his villeins.