Law. [a. AF. toller, toler, touller, ad. L. toll-ĕre to take away.] trans. To take away, bar, defeat, annul. To toll an entry, to take away the right of, or bar entry.
[1292. Britton, I. vi. § 2. Ensint qe peyne ne lour toulle nule resoun. Ibid., xxvi. § 1. Cum il avera tolet al pleyntif. Et si … ele avera tolu a homme ses membres.]
1467–8. Rolls of Parlt., V. 631/1. That the esson and … other delay of eny persone … by this acte be not prejudiced nor tolled in any wise.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 63 § 4. Wherof their entres … shall be tolled and taken away by the Course of the Lawe.
1544. trans. Littleton’s Tenures (1574), 86 b. Suche discente shall not tol the entre of the childe, but be may enter vpon the issue that is in by discent.
1642. J. M[arsh], Argt. conc. Militia, 18. The King may dissolve a Parliament and so totally toll their power.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 74. It … tolls the Presumption in Favour of a Sentence.
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages (1878), III. 166, note. In what case this right of entry was taken away, or tolled, as it was expressed, by the death or alienation of the disseisor.
