TOLL

(Germ.zoll.) The name usually given to the duties imposed on travellers and goods pa ing along public roads, bridges, . It is also used to indicate the payment to the corporation of a town, or to the lord or owner of a market or fair, upon sale of things tollable. The right, whether to take toll, or to be exempt from its payment, rests upon prescription or grant from the king. Toil is sometimes taken by a man for every beast driven acro his ground, and is then called toll-traverse; also by a town for beasts going through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost, and is then called toll thorough. See Taille. TOLMEN, or [s. 1255]