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v

  1. To bar, or take away; to defeat.
  2. To stop from running (said of a statutory period of time).
  3. To charge for the use of anotherÂ’s property, hence toll roads, toll bridges, and so on.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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