<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001127602-13-035544.txt : 20131223
<SEC-HEADER>0001127602-13-035544.hdr.sgml : 20131223
<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20131223173228
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001127602-13-035544
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20131220
FILED AS OF DATE:		20131223
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20131223

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TOLL BROTHERS INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000794170
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	OPERATIVE BUILDERS [1531]
		IRS NUMBER:				232416878
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		250 GIBRALTAR ROAD
		CITY:			HORSHAM
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			19044
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2159388000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		250 GIBRALTAR ROAD
		CITY:			HORSHAM
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			19044

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Connor Martin P.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001501993

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09186
		FILM NUMBER:		131295935

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		250 GIBRALTAR ROAD
		CITY:			HORSHAM
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			19044
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Performance criteria was met on May 14, 2012. Service requirement was met on December 20, 2013. See footnote 3 below.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Vesting 25% on 12/20/2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Exercisable as of vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Each performance based restricted stock unit represents a contingent right ot receive one share of TOL common stock and will vest  and the reporting person will be entitiled to receive the underlying shares if the average closing price of TOL's common stock on the NYSE, as measured over twenty consecutive trading days ending on or prior to December 20, 2015, increases 30% or more over the closing price of TOL's common stock on the NYSE on December 20, 2010, provided the reporting person continues to be employed by the company through December 20, 2013.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

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        <signatureName>/s/Kathryn G. Flanagan,attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2013-12-23</signatureDate>
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<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY (PUBLIC):
<TEXT>
POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned
hereby constitutes and appoints each of John K. Mc
Donald , Joseph R. Sicree, Michael J. Grubb and
Flanagan, signing singly, the undersigned?s true and
lawful attorney-in-fact  to:
(1)	execute for and on behalf of the
undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an
officer and/or director of Toll Brothers, Inc, (the
?Company?), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and
on behalf of the undersigned which may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute
any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute
any amendment or amendments thereto, and
timely file such form with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type
whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in
 such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve
in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
	The undersigned hereby grants to each such
attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
 could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of
Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-
in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.
	This Power of Attorney shall replace and
supersede any prior power of attorney executed by the
undersigned relating to the matters contemplated herein
and shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and
5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless
earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has
caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this
30th day of September, 2013.
/s/Martin P. Connor

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