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Toll-traverse, is a toll taken in respect of the original ownership of the land crossed by the public the land having been at the date of the grant the grantee's private property, and having been then dedicated by him to the public in consideration of the toll to be taken, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., p. 96, para. 138.

Toll-traverse, or Travers, toll taken for every beast driven across a man's land. He may prescribe and distrain for it via regia, Cro. Eliz. 710.