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Definition of Tollhouses
1. tollhouse [n] - See also: tollhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tollhouses
Literary usage of Tollhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1880)
"57 it was enacted That where any tollhouse or tollhouses standing on or adjoining
any turnpike road, and which shall ha vu been erected by or vested in the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1853)
"49. enacts that, " if any mortgagee or mortgagees of any tolls, tollgates, bars,
chains, tollhouses and buildings, on any turnpike road, shall seek to ..."
3. Public and Private Economy by Theodore Sedgwick (1838)
"That two gates on the great western road were let for three thousand pounds
annually, the whole of which sum was expended yearly to repair the tollhouses ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1881)
"Sir Neil Menzies last century gave two sites for tollhouses on Highland roads.
... The sites for the tollhouses were granted by the pursuer's father to the ..."
5. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1904)
"J. intone Walker had acquired the boundary surrounding the tollhouses from the
original grantor, and the question arose as to whether or not the land upon ..."
6. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1853)
"Member who had last spoken, that the licensed tollhouses were a public nuisance
in Scotland. The evils attached to the present system of selling spirits in ..."
7. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1830)
"4 G.4. c.95. occupy tollhouses. Enabling the trustees to take possession of the
toll-house, &c. when let to farm, or held by the collectors for the trustees ..."
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