The Acts for Promoting the Public Health, 1848 to 1851

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Charles Knight, 1852 - 328 pages

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Page 108 - Act, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during which the same...
Page 110 - ... shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for every day during which he shall permit or suffer such street to continue to be so improperly laid out, made, or built upon...
Page 196 - And be it enacted, that full compensation shall be made out of the general or special district rates to be levied under this Act (z), to all persons sustaining any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers of this Act...
Page 111 - ... according to the frontage of their respective premises, and in such proportion as shall be settled by the surveyor, or in case of dispute as shall be settled by arbitration (having regard to all the circumstances of the case) in the manner provided by this act...
Page 81 - ... any cellar or vault which may be under the pavement or carriageway of any street, and, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier (if on the report of the surveyor it appears necessary), into through or under any lands whatsoever within their district.
Page 16 - ... 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 234 - If the person to whom notice is so given fails to comply therewith within the time therein specified, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for every day during which he continues to make default...
Page 214 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 182 - ... fit, refrain from issuing such warrant of distress ; and in such case, or if such warrant shall have been issued, and upon the return thereof such insufficiency as aforesaid shall be made to appear to the...
Page 118 - ... that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water ; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or Ch.

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