Toll

Definition - Noun
[Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolOnion, from telOnEs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll]
: a charge for the use of a transportation route or facility
broadly
: a charge for use <a water ~>

Definition - Verb
[Anglo-French tollir toller to take away, make null, bar, ultimately from Latin tollere to lift up, take away]
1  : to take away (as a right)
2 a  : to remove the effect of <the court did not ~ the statute of repose after the statutory period had expired>
b  : See also suspend <~ the running of the statute of limitations>
compare run
: to be suspended <statute of limitations ~s for a period of seventy-five days following the notice ­Parker v. Yen, 823 S.W.2d 359 (1991)>

Definition - Noun
: a suspension of effect <the court extended the statute of limitations ~>



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intrinsic fraud

fraud (as by the use of false or forged documents, false claims, or perjured testimony) that deceives the trier of fact and results in a judgment in favor of the party perpetrating the fraud


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