— Also termed writ of tolt. See COURT BARON; county court under COURT.
“Where the disputed interest in the land was not a fee held of the king in chief but a fee held of a ‘mesne lord’ the writ was directed to him bidding him do full right between the parties in the matter of the land in question under pain of the case being removed from his court to the sheriff’s court if he failed to do justice. This removal was effected (if necessary) by the process known as ‘tolt’ under which a sheriff on a complaint to him in his county court of a failure of the lord to do justice ordered his bailiff to attend the lord’s court and take away the plaint into the county court.” Geoffrey Radcliffe & Geoffrey Cross, The English Legal System 38 (G.J. Hand & D.J. Bentley eds., 6th ed. 1977).
