In English law. 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

Payment of toll; money charged or paid as toll; the liberty or franchise of charging toll

A prison; a customhouse ; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.

A vessel by which the toll of corn for grinding is measured. Tolle voluntatem et erit omnis actus indifferens. Take away the will, and every action will be indifferent. Bract fol. 2.

One who collects tribute or taxes.

Lat. In the civil law. To lift up or raise ; to elevate; to build up.

In a general sense, tolls signify auy manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of mouey demanded for exporting or importing of any wares or merchandise to be takeu of the

Au old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some mauors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

The same as “tollbooth.” Also a place where merchants meet; a local tri- bunal for small civil causes held at the Guildhall, Bristol.

A writ whereby a cause depending in a court barou was taken and removed into a county court Old Nat. Brev. 4.

In old English law. Wroug; rapine; extortion. Cowell.

A measure of weight; differently fixed, by different statutes, at two thousand pounds avoirdupois, (1 Rev. St N. Y. 009,

The capacity of a vessel for carrying freight or other loads, calculated iu tous. But the way of estimating the tonnage varies iu different countries. Iu England, tonnage denotes the actual weight

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

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

In old English law. A custom or impost upon wines and other mer- chandise exported or imported, according to a certain rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell.

In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship’s freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tuu- nage was paid to the king. Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A thief-taker.

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.

In old English law. A being shaven; the having the head shaven; a shaveu head. 4 Bl. Comm. 307.