The Law of Mines, Quarries, and Minerals

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Sweet and Maxwell, 1907 - 895 pages

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Page 678 - ... if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary...
Page 436 - By the general law applicable to running streams every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of the water flowing past his land ; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes, and for his cattle ; and this, without regard to the effect, which such use may have in case of a deficiency upon proprietors lower down the stream.
Page 334 - Act; and the company shall make to the owners and occupiers of and all other partus interested in any lands taken or used for the purposes of the railway, or injuriously affected by the construction thereof, full compensation for the value of the lands so taken or used, and for all damage sustained by such owners...
Page 683 - Every question shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question...
Page 734 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 618 - ... 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 631 - Act ; and in the event of any such contravention or non-compliance by any person whomsoever, the owner, agent, and manager of the mine shall each be guilty of an offence against this Act, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the provisions of this section to prevent the contravention or non-compliance.
Page 716 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in the information...
Page 684 - ... if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same the directors present shall choose some one. of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
Page 683 - Examinations. 1. The board shall meet for the despatch of business, and shall from time to time make such regulations with respect to the summoning, notice, place, management, and adjournment of such meetings, and generally with respect to the transaction and management of business, including the quorum at meetings of the board...

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