sb. Old Law. [a. AF. tolte, toulte = med.L. tolta, f. L. tollĕre ‘to take up, raise, lift,’ with the form of a sb. from pa. pple.] A writ by which a cause was removed from a court-baron to the county court.
[1294. Placita coram rege, Easter 22 Edw. I., 18 d. Dicit quod … Alicia numquam toltam predicti placiti per probacionem … ei optulit tanquam vicecomiti.
1337. Year-bks. 11–12 Edw. III. (Rolls), 307. Le vicomte manda qil navoit pas fait la toulte.]
1607. Cowell, Interpr., Tolt (tolta) is a writ whereby a cause depending in a court Baron, is remoued into the county court.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. xlviii. (1739), 83. This Suit was originally begun and had its final determination in the County-Court, and not brought by a Tolt out of the Hundred-Court.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. iv. 34. The proceedings on a writ of right may be removed into the county court by a precept from the sheriff called a tolt, ‘quia tollit atque eximit causam e curia baronum.’
1876. Digby, Real Prop., ii. § 2. 73, note.
1912. Eyre of Kent (Selden), II. 87. The plea [1313–4] was removed by a tolt into the County Court.
Hence Tolt v. (nonce-wd.), trans. to raise, lift up.
1896. Calendar Inner Temple, I. Introd. 35. These [i.e., the clerks commoners], after certain probation, could be called or ‘tolted’ to the Masters’ Commons table.
