A wrong-doer; • one who commits or is guilty of a tort

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The usual meaning of the word “tool” is “an instrument of manual opera-tion;” that is, an instrument to be used and managed by the hand Instead of heing moved nnd controlled * by machinery. Lovewell v. VVestchester F. Ins. Co., 124 Mass. 420, 26 Am. Rep. 671. , A

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In old Engllsh law. A be-£ng shaven; the having the head shaven; a shaven head. 4 Bl. Coinm. 367

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In French law. A species Of association or partnership formed among persons who are in receipt Of perpettfai or life annuities, with the agreelnfent that the shares or annuities of those who die Bhall accrue to the survivors. This plan is Sald to be thus named frohi Touti, an Italian, who Invented it in the seventeenth' century. The principle is used in some forms of life insurance.. Merl. Repert

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In old Scotch law. A thief-taker

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Lat in old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crowri of the head .shaven; tonsure. One of the pe-culiar badges of a clerk or clergyman

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ln old Engllsh law. A custom or impost upbn wines and other merchandise exported or imported, according to a certain rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell

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

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In English Uw

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when the rent re-served 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 is generally a dead rent in ad-dltion. Sweet

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In old Engllsh law. wrong; rapine; extortion. CowelL

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GE. The capaclty of a vessel for carrylng freight or other, loads, calcu-lated in tons. But the way of estimating the tonnage varles iu dlfferent countries. In England, tonnage denotes the actual weight in tons which the vessel can safely carry; In America, her carrying capacity estimated from the cubic dimensions of the hold, bee Roberts v. Opdyke, 40 N. V. 259

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

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A writ whereby a cause depend-lng lu a court baron was taken and removed Into a county court, old Nat Brev. 4

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In a general sense, tolls slgnlfy any manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of mouey demanded for

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An old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some manors to the lord for liberty to brew and seil ale. Cowell

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one who collects tribute or taxes

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Lat. In the clvil law. To Uft up or raise; to elevute; to build up

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A prison; a custom-house; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed, wharton

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A vessel by whlch the toll of corn for grinding is measured

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The allowance of religious oplnions and modes of worship in a state which are contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief. wehster

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Payment of toll; money charged or paid as toll; the liberty or fran-chlse of charging toll

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Lat. In Roman la’fv. Advocates; so called under the empire because they were required, wben appearing in court to plead a cause, to wear the toga, which had then ceased to be the customary dress in Rome. Vlcat

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A sign or mark; a material evl-dtnce of the existence of a fact Thus, cheating by “false tokens” implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to asslst the person’s own fraud and falsehood in accomplishing the cheat See State v. Green, 18 N. J. Law, 181; State v. Middleton, Dud. (S. C.) 285; Jones ▼. State, 60 Ind. 476

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