Expression "tolls" - Indian Laws - General

Expression tolls As per Encyclopedia Americana , Volume 26, at page 675, the expression toll has been defined as follows: Toll, the fee exacted by those who erect or maintain a bridge for the privilege of passing over the same a compensation for services especially for transportation, as canal of railway toll. In the Encyclopedia Britannica , 1965 edition, the following note appears under the heading Toll Bridges . Long-span bridges are mostly, and experience has shown that the most practicable manner in which they can be afforded is to build them as financially self-liquidating projects by charging tolls on the traffic using them. MAHESHWARI SINGH VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR AND ORS. - 1966 (5) TMI 69 - PATNA HIGH COURT