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  • TOLLBOOTH
    A prison; a customhouse; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.
  • TOLLDISH
    A vessel by which the toll of corn for grinding is measured. Tolle voluntatem et erit omnis actus indixferens. Take away the will, and every action will be indifferent. Bract, fol. 2.
  • TOLLER
    One who collects tribute or taxes.
  • TOLLERE
    Lat. In the civil law. To lift up or raise; to elevate; to build up.
  • TOLLS
    In a general sense, tolls signify any manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of money demanded for exporting or importing of any wares or merchandise to be taken of the buyer. 2 Inst 58.
  • TOLLSESTER
    An old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some manors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.
  • TOLSEY
    The same as "tollbooth." Also a place where merchants meet; a local tribunal for small civil causes held at the Guildhall, Bristol.
  • TOLT
    A writ whereby a cause depending in a court baron was taken and removed into a county court Old Nat Brev. 4.
  • TOLTA
    In old English law. Wrong; rapine; extortion. Cowell.
  • TON
    A measure of weight; differently fixed, by different statutes, at two thousand pounds avoirdupois, (1 Rev. St N. Y. 60i>, i 35,) or at twenty hundred-weights, each hundred-weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois, (Rev. St U. S" f 2951 [U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1945].)
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