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Page 165 - The principal value of any property shall be estimated to be the price which, in the opinion of the Commissioners, such property would fetch if sold in the open market at the time of the death of the deceased...
Page 44 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 265 - The value of land shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be taken to be the amount which the land if sold in the open market by a willing seller might be expected to realise...
Page 157 - October, 1833, served him with a notice to quit the lands and buildings, " at the expiration of half a year from the delivery of this notice, or at such other time or times as your present year's holding of or in the said premises, or any part or parts thereof respectively, shall expire after the expiration of half a year from the delivery of this notice.
Page 249 - ... there shall be implied a condition that the house is at the commencement of the holding in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation...
Page 156 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : " Sewer " includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 45 - taxes and tithe commutation rent-charge (if any), and if the landlord " undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance and the other " expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to
Page 71 - The urban authority shall pay or tender compensation to the owner or other person immediately interested in such house or building for any loss or damage he may sustain in consequence of his house or building being set back or forward, the amount of such compensation, in case of dispute, to be settled by arbitration in manner provided by this Act.
Page 157 - ... at the end of the current year of your tenancy, which shall expire next after the end of one half-year from the time of your being served with this notice.
Page 304 - ... means any parcel of land held by a tenant, which is either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agricultural, and as to the residue pastoral...

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