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  • 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].)
  • TONNAGE
    The capacity of a vessel for carrying freight or other, loads, calculated in tons. But the way of estimating the tonnage varies in different countries. In England, tonnage denotes the actual weight In tons which, the vessel can safely carry; in America, her carrying capacity estimated from the cubic dimensions More...
  • TONNAGE DUTY
    In English law. A duty Imposed by parliament upon merchandise exported and imported, according to a certain rate upon every ton. Brown. In American law. A tax laid upon vessels according to their tonnage or cubical capacity. A tonnage duty is a duty imposed on vessels in proportion to their More...
  • TONNAGE-RENT
    When the rent reserved by a mining lease or the like consists of a royalty on every ton of minerals gotten in the mine, it is often called a ''tonnage-rent'" There is generally a dead rent in addition. Sweet
  • TONNAGIUM
    In old English law. A custom or impost upon wines and other merchandise exported, or imported, according to a certain. rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell.
  • TONNETIGHT
    In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tup, in a ship's freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tunnage was paid to the king. Cowell.
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