Crossword clues for tolling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling.] To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll.
--Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which a bell is tolled. vb. (present participle of toll English)
Wikipedia
Tolling is a legal doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations. Certain traditional conditions will toll a statute of limitations if:
- Plaintiff is a minor.
- Plaintiff has been deemed insane.
- Plaintiff has been convicted of a felony and is imprisoned; a major component of the AEDPA.
- Defendant is in bankruptcy.
- Defendant is not physically present in a state.
- Filing of an action which is later voluntarily dismissed.
- Parties were engaged in good-faith negotiations to resolve the dispute.
The effects of tolling can be curtailed by a statute of repose, which creates an absolute deadline for filling an action, irrespective of reasons for tolling the statute of limitations.
Many jurisdictions have particular peculiarities with regard to tolling. For example, in the state of Virginia, where a party brings an action, and then declares a nonsuit, the statute of limitations is extended for six months.
Usage examples of "tolling".
He still remembered being awakened by the tolling of the guardhouse bells and hearing his mother wailing in the next chamber.
No doubt Javan had heard the bells tolling and the people crying in the castle wards and city lanes.
The bell had a mournful sound to it, and lacking any purpose that they knew of, the tolling of the bell disturbed them more each time.
Even the distant, small isles of Ilf and Alaf were reached by noon with word passing from ship to fishing boat to ship until it was in Alaf harbor as the bell began tolling midday in the temple tower.
Presently he began to hear the ardent tolling of several bells on the north side of Tower Hill.
Allah, but simply because the Franks were so fond of them, and used them so much, that merely to hear one tolling was to be put forcibly in mind of the profanities of the infidels.
For the tolling of so many melancholic bells had a third meaning: this was Hanging-Day.
In the moment of absolute silence that followed there came to him, faintly, a sound, unintelligible at first, but growing in volume until he knew that it was the last echo of a tolling bell.
As he mounted the step he heard for the second time since landing upon the island the solemn tolling of the great bell at St.
As he spoke the cabin trembled, a tremor passed under them, and the tolling of the bell was lost in a sudden tumult that came like the bursting crash of low thunder.
Each minute seemed like an hour marked into seconds by the solemn steady tolling of the bell, and after a little he found himself unconsciously measuring time by counting the strokes.
And they sent to the keeper of the Bell-tower, and forbade the tolling of the bells.
That fateful bell was tolling the death of Fred Ferris, the man who had dared the shadow of the rock.
This whole thing was so impossible, disposing of blood that came from nowhere, like the tolling bell, that Harry was taking everything for granted, including the light that arrived so conveniently.
Considerable time had elapsed since two victims had heard the tolling of the great bell that meant death for both.