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tolt, n. Old Law.|təʊlt|
[a. AF. tolte, toulte = med.L. tolta, f. L. tollĕre ‘to take up, raise, lift’, with the form of a n. from pa. pple.]
A writ by which a cause was removed from a court-baron to the county court.
[1294Placita coram rege, Easter 22 Edw. I, 18 d, Dicit quod..Alicia numquam toltam predicti placiti per probacionem..ei optulit tanquam vicecomiti. 1337Year-bks. 11–12 Edw. III (Rolls) 307 Le vicomte manda qil navoit pas fait la toulte.] 1607Cowell Interpr., Tolt (tolta) is a writ whereby a cause depending in a court Baron, is remoued into the county court. 1647N. 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. 1768Blackstone 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.’ 1876Digby Real Prop. ii. §2. 73 note. 1912Eyre of Kent (Selden) II. 87 The plea [1313–4] was removed by a tolt into the County Court.
Hence tolt v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to raise, lift up.
1896Calendar Inner Temple I. Introd. 35 These [i.e. the clerks commoners], after certain probation, could be called or ‘tolted’ to the Masters' Commons table. |